What went wrong?

>>3083203
No warm-water ports

>>3083206
nigga they had access to the black sea

>>3083203
>what went wrong?
Everything, and then it got a whole lot worse.

>>3083203
very uneven wealth distribution. sparse population

>>3083203
Never did get the Dardanelles

>>3083275
Cucc sea

Constant harassment from Poland since the middle ages set them back

>>3083203
autocracy and serfdom (abolished 1861, obligatory payments were abolished only after 1905), forced communal farming, which was only abolished with Stolypin reforms (1907) only then peasants could leave communes and work on their own land for themselves, but third of peasants used this opportunity, WW1, extreme leftist ideologues took power, Civil War, devastation and misery, forced industrialization and collectivization of agriculture, WW2, devastation and misery, Khrushchev's thaw, even he and his party admitted and admonished on 20th congress of communist party mass repressions and personality cult of Stalin, people started to become less and less exposed to ideological bullshit, brute force like during Stalin's age couldn't be used no more, so "utopia" collapsed

Communism

>>3084509
they would be better off if 1610 union was success

>>3083203
The Russians.

>>3083203

If it hadn't spent such a long time chasing the communism meme, Russia would be the most powerful nation on earth right now.

I tell you whats wrong they pretended to be Westernized but still have such ugly letters.

>>3084923
Nice post backed by facts you got there, friedno

>>3085380
I honestly think their letters look pretty cool.

>>3083275
Fucking useless, they need to lick Turkey's nuts if they even want to bring warships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.

>>3085380
The letter are not "theirs" They're originally Bulgarian.

>>3085843
t. Bulgar Bulgartov