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77 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Oct \ on: Zeihan - China Going to Zero econ

Totalitarian regimes can fall very quickly and they can linger far longer than seems plausible.

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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT OP 21 Oct

It's hard for me to see how that could happen.

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Oct

Sure, but nobody saw the Soviet Union collapse coming at the time, either.

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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT OP 21 Oct

That might be a good one to research a little deeper. What life was like before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Oct

I've seen a few different hypotheses and it doesn't seem like the proximate causes are fully established.

However, the sense I have is that they ceased being able to control public perception in a variety of ways and the end came quickly after that.

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