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Happy Soviet Union Collapse Day Just a reminder that no matter how bad things get, this too shall pass
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Indeed it is a fantastic day to commemorate, Gorby had resigned on 25th December and IiRC one of the Central Asian Soviet republics had not seceded from the USSR for the last 11 days of the USSR’s existence, I think it was Kazakstan, but it was still a sovereign entity with notional command of nukes.
And it was a remarkably and thankfully peaceful collapse, only 3 (still too many) died in the Moscow coup that August. Although many died in conflicts, Armenia’s fight for survival, Georgia and Moldova spring to mind, it was remarkably peaceful.
So why doesn’t the EU go three better and dissolve itself peacefully?