• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    I’m curious now what you mean because I’ve always heard Khrushchev in terms of setting the stage for the USSR’s downfall. Like wasn’t he the one who threw Stalin’s legacy under the bus, thereby eroding a large part of confidence in the USSR’s history in the process?

    • Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 days ago

      He did shit on Stalin’s legacy but I don’t think that set the stage for the USSR downfall. I think if Andropov had another decade in him USSR might’ve survived.

      No question both his and Brezhnev’s govts had failed economic policies and in general weren’t great domestically but we shouldn’t discard what those governments did on the international stage.