Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

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>>3366781

Communism.

People don't like when there is a shortage of toilet paper in your country and all sausages consists of 0.05% of normal meat and 99.95% of substitutes

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>>3366781
Didn't understand basic economics

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>>3366835
>shortage of toilet paper in your country and all sausages consists of 0.05% of normal meat and 99.95% of substitutes
Give old rooster some proffs

It had a choice between feeding its people or making more bombs.

It chose bombs.

>>3366781
They did liberalize their economy, unlike China under Based Deng.

>>3366781
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU

>>3366942
*didn't

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>>3366781
Oil. Every other answer is just asspulls.

>>3366840
>voters overwhelmingly vote nationalist politicians promising independence into office
>yet somehow they also want the USSR to stay together

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>>3366781
Perestroika

>>3366781
>Lack of production in factories
>Government was managing things poorly
>things were too centralized
>State corrupt as fuck(thing that exists until today)
>niggers everywhere wanting freedom
>Economy? what is that?

The real question is, how it lasted that long?

>>3366839
Neoliberalism will literally collapse sooner than communism.