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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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lapcat ◴[30 Aug 22 21:07 UTC] No.32655071[source]▶
The United States didn't do enough to help Russia transition to democracy in the 1990s. There was no "Marshall Plan" after the Cold War like there was after World War II. This was a huge mistake, and we see the consequences now, with Russia having turned back toward totalitarianism and imperialism. Sadly, it seems that Gorbachev's efforts were mostly for naught. But it was courageous at the time to open up the Soviet Union to glasnost and perestroika.

Of course Yeltsin was a big part of the problem too.

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1. avgcorrection ◴[30 Aug 22 21:34 UTC] No.32655429[source]▶
The West was and is about capitalism, not democracy. Democracy in the Third and Second World often gets in the way for the West since it brings with itself problems like nationalization of resources (i.e. closing off resources to Western corporations). Probably other problems as well.