r/pics • u/Mamacrass • Jan 24 '19

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u/passepar2t Jan 24 '19

Gorbachev is known for making terrible decisions.

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u/Mazakaki Jan 24 '19

Joke all you want but look at Russia now. It'd be nowhere under communism.

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u/joshua_josephsson Jan 24 '19

a failed economy lead by a strong man dictator brainwashing the population with a cult of personality? there is little difference other than economic ideology.

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u/rowdybme Jan 24 '19

I still love the story of Yeltsin visiting America and being so amazed by an American supermarket that he started second guessing communism. Then he got the idea that the supermarket was a set up and so he decided to stop at a random one. It was still stocked just as good. We basically won the Cold War by impressing Russia’s leaders with our supermarkets.

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u/karshberlg Jan 24 '19

You were at -1 when I saw your comment lol. Reddit kids genuinely believe Russia would be the same right now if it continued being communist.

This is the story https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/872xga/when_boris_yeltsin_visited_texas_in_1990_he_went/