Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey View Post
Name one
One issue you have not adequately addressed? I can name several.
First, you bumbling fucking moron, you claimed that the desire for "western freedoms" led to the collapse of the USSR, which is erroneous.
After I disproved that, you said it was a desire for western products. Wrong again.
Then, you said that it was corruption which brought down the USSR.
You have not addressed that, nor have you ever given any reasons for why what you have claimed is true.
Nor have you addressed any of the points and counter-points I have brought up against you.
Here's a direct quote, from a book written by 2 PHD's, "The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and even in the Soviet homeland might have been aniticipated... The dominant trends of the 20th century all pointed towards such an eventual collapse. Growing global interdependence meant that the Soviet bloc economies could not be kept isolated. As Stalinist-style economics failed, communism's worn out slogans could no longer rationalize mass mobilization..."
Yeltsin himself said that Russia needed, "economic shock therapy".
Like I have said over and over again, economics was the principle reason for the collapse of the USSR. I know there were some pretty big words in that quote, so I'm pretty sure you still won't understand what the fuck this is all about.
I've got to go out now, but I'll gladly continue to educate your simpleton ass later tonight.