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Would the fall of the Soviet Union constitute a collapse of civilization
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Would the fall of the Soviet Union constitute a collapse of civilization comparable to the Bronze Age Catastrophe, Fall of Rome, and 16th century American pandemics? 1990s Russia seems absolutely hellish, compared to what existed before.

Immediately after the fall of the USSR, poverty rose from 20% to 40%. US department of commerce reports an average 60% drop in real income by 1995. In 1998, the organization Sibling Abuse Survivors discovered 5,000 child prostitutes in the city of St. Petersburg alone. While 1992 suffered over 20,000 murders, nearly 48,000 homicides were reported in 1994. The rate of all crime doubled between 1985 and 1992.
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>>1292705

No. Moscow wasn't sacked or burned.
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>>1292705
90's Russia was like Weimar Germany. Possibly even worse.
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REKT
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Not even close. You got a real catastrophe in the case of fall of Rome and just some near temporal downgrade in the Soviet Union collapse.
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Pretty sure it was rather good for the Baltic states. so not completely.
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>>1294775
But Russia still hasn't recovered
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>>1294878
It mostly recovered if you exclude territorial loses.
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