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>It's Gorbachev!
>Because of him, we have economic confusion!
1991: Mass privatization laws in Russia are accepted in order to transform Russia into a proper market economy. This gives a rise of inequality and poverty rivaled only by the Great Depression of 1930's America.
>Because of him, we have opportunity!
1991-1999: Ex-Soviet institutions fall into the hands of shady characters and outright crime groups, who later become what we today call the Russian oligarchy.
>Because of him, we have political instability!
1993: Following a confrontation with the Russian parliament, president Yeltsin uses tanks to shell the Russian White House, resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people.
>Because of him, we have freedom!
1991-1999: Ex-Soviet institutions not belonging to crime groups are seized by them via force. Business rivals and competitors are murdered in broad daylight. Journalists criticizing criminal authorities are forced into exile or found assassinated.
>Complete chaos!
1991-1999: The overall civilian death toll for Russia in the 90's estimates between 4 to 5 million, all due to poverty, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and crime-related murder. These just being the official estimates, and not counting the death toll for the Chechen military campaign.
>Hope!
1998: Vladimir Putin - ex-KGB agent, member of Cooperative Ozero, with ties to the Tambov Organized Crime Group - is pushed into power by Arkady Sobchak, as well as oligarchs Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and Boris Berezovsky. Following Yeltsin's resignation on New Year's Eve 1999, Putin becomes President of Russia.
>Political instability!
>Because of him we have many things... like Pizza Hut.
1991-1999: The monthly income for an average Russian citizen unassociated with crime at the time estimates between 50 to 120 dollars. The person was lucky enough if he had spare money to afford himself a cheeseburger from McDonalds, let alone a pizza from Pizza Hut.
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>Hail to Gorbachev!
1999: The discovery of "Ryazan sugar" proves the involvement of FSB in 1999's apartment bombings which took the lives of at least 300 people. Following Putin's inauguration, discussion on this subject has been close to nonexistant in Russian media.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2002: The Russian government uses chemical weapons to disrupt a hostage crisis, killing all the perpetrators and also 130 of the hostages.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2003: The Russian government arrests oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and effectively eliminates YUKOS, the most successful at the time company in Russia, by forcing it into bankruptcy and appropriating it's asses for state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2004: Censorship in Russian media over the Beslan school siege which ended in the deaths 380 people, out of which 180 were children.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2008: The Russian government invades Georgia, a former brotherly nation, after Georgia announces it's plans for joining NATO.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2011: Bolotnaya Protests are crushed by the Russian Government. This is followed by mass arrests against the protest organizers, acceptance of new laws breaching human privacy, and increase of control over the Russian media.
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>Hail to Gorbachev!
2014: Russia annexes the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and uses mercenary personal to spark an outright separatist war in the Eastern region of Ukraine after Ukrainian citizens dethrone president Viktor Yanukovich, a Russian puppet that has also been denied presidency once in 2004 following mass protests against voting fraud.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2015: With sanctions and oil prices plummeting effectively marking the end for Russia's economic prosperity which started in the early 00's, the Russian government accepts new laws and bills which further breach human privacy, and also creates a military National Guard to use in cases of civil unrest.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2015: Russia makes use of the situation in Syria, by slandering America's unsuccessful involvement in the war, as well as fuelling anti-Western nationalist movements throughout Europe.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2015: Russian and NATO militarization reaches new heights since the end of the Cold War.
>Hail to Gorbachev!
2016: America elects Donald Trump, close associate to Russian oligarchs, and friend of Vladimir Putin.
You reap what you sow, America.
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>>2072649
*assets
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I'm not sure what the point of the thread is. America destroyed Russia, and got rewarded by the most promising president it had for a long time?
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>>2072683
>this many days after election day and he still thinks that
>the MSM is all fake news guys
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thanks capitalism
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>>2072639
> The Soviet Union fell and everyone was so happy that it transitioned peacefully.
> The democracy and unregulated capitalism that was going to solve everyones problems was finally here.
> Mafia and already connected people take everything, force weaker people to give up shares of companies they got, take over people's successful small businesses (wow thats never happened before) (lenin rolling in his mausoleum)
> Russia produces the most billionares in the world in 10 years
> Most leave Russia and take their loot with them
> Ex-KGB takes power. "Cracks down on corruption" on everyone who isnt his buddy. Runs country with iron fist but has pretty good popularity and military success.
> Now Russia is just barely regaining world player status, everyone is still poor and lives in the same soviet era apartments, cold war is rekindled, gov is just as oppressive
The fall of the Soviet Union was a mistake (for Russia, the US only has gains from their instability). Yeltsin is really to blame more so then Gorbachev, altho Gorbachev could have prevented it I guess. He was in a tight spot either way.
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>communism collapse because it's an inherently shit system
>"everything bad that happened afterwards is the fault of anti-communists"
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>>2073109
It died because it was betrayed by it's own people.
Reminder that majority of those oligarchs that arose from privatization in Russia are ex-communist party members.
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>>2073364
This desu. The propaganda was working on the proles just fine. But power was too centralized, and all the party members were sick of just exploiting their stations for pallets of commie caviar and other commodities, and wanted to privatize.
I mean would you rather be a party oligarch or a capitalist oligarch?
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>>2073368
Are you saying that communism leads to party oligarchy who's greed leads to capitalism?
Are you saying that
Communism is against human nature?
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>>2072639
Nice history thread, faggot
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