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[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Soviet Union didnt collapse because some "revolutionaries" overthrew it. It collapsed onto it's own rotten core.

The Soviet Union collapsed because a liberal reformer undermined the foundations of its political system. In the US, what we are seeing instead is an increasing centralisation.

[–]shilldetector 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is probably true to a large extent, which is why I dont like using historical examples to explain the present. Things are always a lot more complicated than X happened in 19** and it looks superficially like now so X is happening now.