In the capitalist core, it was optimistic. Quarter of the world just became ripe for looting of magnitude previously unheard, capitalism entered one of the biggest boom cycles, history was “ending”, “democracy and freedom” won, they even got few more crumbs from the lord’s tables.
Not so much, if you lived outside the core, especially not in Russia, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, China, Vietnam, Cuba etc. etc.
In the capitalist core, it was optimistic. Quarter of the world just became ripe for looting of magnitude previously unheard, capitalism entered one of the biggest boom cycles, history was “ending”, “democracy and freedom” won, they even got few more crumbs from the lord’s tables.
Not so much, if you lived outside the core, especially not in Russia, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, China, Vietnam, Cuba etc. etc.
If you lived literally everywhere else except in USA and their puppets…
Japan didn’t they have issues?
Yeah, not to mention the new postsocialist puppets. It was brutal in Poland and worse everywhere else here except maybe GDR and Czech