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        No probs. I’ve yet to read any of his books, but every single article I’ve read by him is top-notch.

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      That’s a yes, it collapsed within one generation. Such an outstanding method of government!

      If all it took, according to you, is one department of one nation to bring it down, it was not strong.

      But we both know that’s not why it collapsed.

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        The USA was and remains the richest, most powerful country in history, and responsible for most of the overthrows, coups, and mass killings in the 20th century.

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          What does that have to do with the internal collapse of the USSR?

          You do know that’s not a country anymore, right? Or hasn’t that news reached .ml yet?

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            What does that have to do with the internal collapse of the USSR?

            you’ve still not made any actual assertions. “The internal collapse of the USSR” makes it seem like you’re gesturing toward having some actual knowledge, which you’re refusing to disclose, instead making smug assertions that this hidden vague knowledge that you refuse to declare means you’re right. So, what does “the internal collapse of the USSR” actually mean to you? What are you imagining (the pictures and words in your brain) when you say “the internal collapse of the USSR,” and what were the causes in your opinion for whatever you’re imagining?

            It doesn’t seem like you actually know what you’re talking about, because you’re desperately avoiding making real substantive statements in any of these comments, instead throwing tantrums when pressed on what you actually think. Tell us your actual positions, without petulant ‘McCarthy-if-he-was-a-redditor’ tantrums, or otherwise stop pretending to have any.

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        The USSR lasted for 70 years, so that’s like 3 generations. It also saved the world from Nazism, eliminated illiteracy, ended famines, became a world superpower, and made it to outer space, all within that time.