Gorbachev’s reign, which lasted from 1985-91, ended with the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, the withdrawal of vital aid to and trade with countries and movements fighting imperialism worldwide, the breakup of the Soviet state into 15 separate countries... #history #imperialism #sovietunion
  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
    10•2 years ago

    Gorbachev and the Soviet “reformers” believed that only by ending the Cold War and liquidating centralized economic planning would U.S. imperialism accept the Soviet Union’s entry into the rapidly accelerating model of a global economy.

    This prove, more than anything, that they were idiots. If only they read (or comprehend) Lenin they would know that their “entry” into that global economy was only as a field for plunder, and if they did the same for Marx they would know that this economy is only accelerating towards crisis as it always was. If anything, without plundering the former socialist countries the crisis in capitalism would come way earlier.

    That is, with maximum benefit of a doubt. I more suspect that they just decided they want to take part in that looting.