Saving Collapse

From the MT:
"Putin Says Soviet Union Could Have Been Saved"

 As he does from time to time, President Vladimir Putin today made another ambiguous public statement about the fate of the Soviet Union, this time stating that its dissolution was unnecessary, were it not for the Soviet Communist Party’s policies. “You know how I feel about the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was entirely unnecessary to do this. It would have been possible to carry out reforms, including democratic reforms, without this [dissolution],” Putin said during a meeting at the Kremlin with the leaders of the political parties represented in the new State Duma. He then faulted the Soviet Communist Party for mismanaging the Soviet Union, blaming it for promoting “ideas of nationalism” and “other destructive ideas that are ruinous to any state.”  Earlier this year, Putin compared Soviet nationalist policies to an “atomic bomb” placed by Lenin and his allies “under a building called Russia” that only exploded later.

^ As I have said before, and history has proven every time, communism can never work in real-life. There will always be a class-based society (for better or worse.) Even during Soviet times there were the "good" Communists who got more perks (ie. travel, better apartments, jobs, access to foreign products, etc.) and those that didn't - which shows that everyone wasn't equal in this "class-less" society. Also anytime a country has to place strict controls on it's citizens (for travel abroad, travel within the country, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.) you know it wouldn't last. It may be several decades later, but eventually it will collapse - as the Soviet Union did. The sign of a great country is one that has to keep people (illegals) out and not one that has to keep its own people in. The USSR collapsed, in-part, because the Soviet Government had wasted what little money they had (ie. foreign currency) on its military and internal "security" rather than on its people. Eventually, the Soviet people had had enough and wanted basic services and products to make life bearable (there's something wrong when a country has rationing when there's no war or natural disaster.) Once the Soviet Government relaxed a little to the people's demands it was only a matter of time before the whole system collapsed. Once people see the truth (ie. that they could have a decent standard of living as the rest of the world) they were not going to go back to the lies of the past. I do not believe that Russia will ever fully become the Soviet Union of the past (despite the Russian Government's stance on bringing back Soviet symbols and practices.) The Russian people (even those that have never left Russia) have seen what the world has to offer and while they still want/need a strong leader to tell them what to do (it is a common thread in Czarist, Soviet and modern Russia) in the end I doubt they would give-up the freedoms and practices that they have lived with for the past 25 years.  Even on the off chance that Russia went back to Soviet times the dictatorship system would eventually collapse for the same reasons as stated above. History tends to repeat itself - especially when you don't learn from your past mistakes. ^

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/putin-says-the-ussr-could-have-been-saved-55467