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Re: Why did the USSR fall
Societal change in Russia has always almost always come from the top down. It has been Revolution from Above since the days of Peter the Great on through Catherine the Great, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, and thus it shall probably be until the end of time.
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> it's not like a "more social democratic government" could have fallen from the sky. There has been no such government because the working classes in the old USSR and (now) Russia are poorly organized. Social democracy is a compromise that the ruling classes (or developing ruling classes) accept when under pressure from below.
> Jim D.
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