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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?
It was indeed an excellent day. And even Mr Putin, a murderer who served the Marxist system all his life, has to admit that Marxism is nonsense – as if he did not admit that most Russians would laugh at him.
That is progress.
Indeed all these countries are better today than they were – better than they have been since before the First World War (it would be very hard to get back to that level of relatively limited government, and high culture).
Mr Ed – as you know Armenia was betrayed (and not for the first time in its sad history) – partly by its own current government, which had a touching (or rather “touched” – deluded) view of what the West was like – which, sadly, did not correspond with reality.
As for the European Union – well it is not Classical Marxism, it is more of a Corporate State mess – and, yes, Mussolini was not as bad as “Lenin” or “Stalin” (and not as bad as Adolf Hitler with his weird racial socialism – based on “Race Science” which did not understand genetics and was not science at all, Adolf Hitler was to the study of biology what Karl Marx was to the study of economics and history – i.e. a delusional maniac), but (as you point out) the Corporate Statism of the European Union is hardly good – and the European Union certainly does need to go.