What Really Happened to the USSR
There are two themes here.
First, a historical note on how fast Superpowers can collapse:
In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty#:~:text=The%20New%20Union%20Treaty%20(Russian,and%20reform%20the%20Soviet%20Union.)
A year later, however, the USSR didn’t exist.
Second theme: a comparison with the US:
In 2021, an astonishing 66% of Southern Republicans and 50% of independents were in favor of secession. (http://archive.today/Qpdp6) The West Coast also showed strong support for secession but of a different political flavor, this time being mostly supported by Democrats.
In this sense, the U.S. is already in more of a precarious situation than the USSR was in early 1991…
What really happened to the USSR?
This is a fascinating history. The video has been purged from YouTube several times. Jeff J Brown put it back up out of sheer bloodymindedness, but it may not stay for long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlCRm3Wi0I
There now is a copy on Odysee as well, subtitled by Irina Boyko Crutcher:
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@amarynth and AHH I’ve rarely seen any info about the state of the Union State and its developments on this blog. It’d be great if you could post about this. Also, I’ve read sometime back that Kazakhstan rejected a Russian proposal to for unification. Wouldn’t it be possible that other… Read more »
I don’t follow the politics of the Union State. But I think Kazakhstan changed its tune. It may have been the former regime of Nazarbayev, which leaned towards Albion, that discouraged the inevitable Union. But the new Prez Tokayev, saved from a coup by the CSTO just before the… Read more »
The video is a true eye opener. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics “exists de jure”, but doesn’t exist de facto. 👀
Thanks! I suspected more or less. The details are of course new to me. I note that the US began its decline after a peak in 1970, which decline has now become so obvious that multitudes of “deplorables” and perverts exist, the alatter being promoted at considerable expense by the… Read more »
Oh! It does!
Thanks Jeff J Brown and Amarynth! Ah this was a wonderful video! Red Storm Rising indeed! Are there a statute of limitations for the crimes described? Are Medvedev and Putin lawyers? Recall Maria Z and others indicating an accounting with the combined West is coming for ALL crimes, including ones… Read more »
In the 1970’s and 80’s Molotov speaks of the destructive and corrupt “capitalist faction” within the USSR, Khrushchev and others specifically. At the same time he exhibits that the bolshevik ideology was, to my eye anyway, exhausted, he properly praises Stalin, I am minded that they were under great urgent… Read more »
Vaguely reminds me of the miniseries Amerika back in the ’80s. In the series Indiana, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and Ohio were part of Ameritech, not Heartland and West Virginia part of Appalachia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(miniseries)