- 24 Jan 2024 21:28
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Sorry, kiddo, someone is feeding you a load of bull.
The Soviet economy was in terrible shape when oil prices crashed in the 80s. Their oil income dropped at the same time they had to increase food imports. There was a cascade failure that is common when economies fail. Something similar happened in America at the beginning of the Great Depression.
KurtFF8 wrote:
This over simplistic explanation just isn't sufficient. There's no question that the economic contradictions and problems of the 1970s and 1980s in the USSR led to the political crisis. But it largely collapsed because of the political crisis and mishandling of that crisis by the leadership of the Communist Party at that time. I would also argue it collapse as a result of the inability of the Party to mobilize the workers prior to that crisis as well of course.
Sorry, kiddo, someone is feeding you a load of bull.
The Soviet economy was in terrible shape when oil prices crashed in the 80s. Their oil income dropped at the same time they had to increase food imports. There was a cascade failure that is common when economies fail. Something similar happened in America at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Facts have a well known liberal bias