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ListSep 9, 2024

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@staylegendCollapse The Fall of the Soviet Union

ReviewSep 3, 2024

First as a tragedy, then as a farce

This is the book to read for all the gory details of the twilight years of the Soviet Union. I know of no other source which has anywhere close to the same access to primary sources and day-by-day capture of specific events. A lower fidelity history will writ…

@earlichkaCollapse The Fall of the Soviet Union

ReviewAug 27, 2024

Russian Heathers

Incredibly entertaining and depressing look at the, well, collapse of the USSR and how it was nothing like many in the West thought it was. Watch in horror at Gorby's supreme arrogance destroying the Soviet economy, prancing around doing a Lenin LARP thinking…

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