Was uniting Germany and ending the Soviet bloc a mistake?

>>2523742
No.

>>2523742
No. Combining Red and blue makes for awesome purple!

>>2523759
>>2523761
why tho?

>>2523768
Why yes? I'm from the former Ostblok and my family needed a special government permission even to leave for a vacation and the furthest you could go was Yugoslavia, fuck that shit.

>>2523783

Yugoslavia is nice desu, there are africans who die every day. You were very lucky to live in GDR.

>>2523783
What's wrong with that? You don't want a picture on the beach littered with Bosniak corpses?

>>2523786
>, there are africans who die every day
Yes? People from all over the earth die everday.

>>2523786
He would have been luckier to live in FRG, faggot.

>>2523783
What if travel restrictions were eased, and the USSR allowed more general independence for the rest of the Eastern bloc turning it more into a non-ideological alliance such as the CSTO?

>>2523806
Socialism was the only thing binding those countries together though.

>>2523812
Not necessary. Unions in that area of the world had sporadically come and gone throughout history. the Holy Alliance comes to mind.

> Bungled "shock" transition to market economy unleashed a hell twice as bad as the American "Great Depression"
> Brother wars break out along with Russian ethnic cleansing in the stans
> Dictators all over said stans and even in Belarus behaving better than Stalin yet worse than Brezhnev, total stagnation in those countries
> NATO spending keeps growing exponentially, keeps coaxing new members for no reason, destroying Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya with no one to stop them, no reform, no mission change from threatening Russia's existence
> Illegals still flock to Russia and their countries get nothing for losing young working men, even legals commonly subject to racism
> No more movement controls and citizenship-for-pennies means no more European Moscow and Peter
> Socialist nationalist guerrilla fighters confined to unimportant countries like Angola or Vietnam replaced with wahhabist truckers in the heart of Europe
> no one cares about space anymore
> women have to choose between prostitution, addiction, or fleeing home instead of choosing between being scientist, officer, or mother

> b-b-but now Latvia is free to work as toilet cleaner and be spit upon anywhere in the w-world!!

Objectively, 100%, yes. Trusting Germany and leaving them to their own devices is never the play.

The USSR took one democratic poll in its history. The majority that voted to preserve the union should have been obeyed. The country didn't need the traitor faggots in the butthurt belt and west Ukraine and De-Stalinization and China prove that communism can undergo great transition without great upheaval.

>>2523961
imo you're 100% right but as an American I feel I don't have the right to tell eastern Euros "you're better off without your consumer goods and being materially poorer again" even if that's the case as they gain in other aspects besides consumer goods.

>>2523961
Germany was good boi tho, he din do nuthin.
He was going to the Synagogue every sunday.

>>2523961
Both communism and capitalism are shit, Hitler should've won.

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>>2525385
Hitler was a capitalist shill tho

>>2525392
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>>2523742
East Germany was a mistake, not supporting the Polish Home Army was a Mistake, not Supporting the Finns against Russian Aggression was a Mistake.

>>2525404
>supporting Poopland ever