afghanistan and chernobyl

if they gave up their internationalism after vietnam it might have lasted a big longer

>>51504521
Economical, Social, Technological (not warfare) stagnation during 1964-1982.

>>51504521
>why did it collapse???

When people are not allowed to own anything, there is absolutely no interest to take care of anything. This leads to massive corruption and soon you'll want to shoot thinking people and build gulags.

Wait some decades and the system just can't survive.

>>51504521
because of second s

Economic isolation, Afganistan, Chernobyl, Gorbachev, butthurt balts and Georgians.
I mean really, Gorby almost single-handedly destroyed the greatest nation in the world, if he didn't come to power, USSR would now be like modern China. Burgers really did a good job with putting him in power.

checkmate gommies

>>51504521
Gorbachev and too many "republics" that didn't want anything to do with Russia.

>>51507256
>many "republics" that didn't want anything to do with Russia.
This. Also the amount of money they were wasting on unddeveloped -stans, help to african and asian shitholes, was pretty impressive

Bloated federal systems are dogshit and inevitably collapse under their own weight.

>>51507170
>Burgers really did a good job with putting him in power.
How the fuck did we put Gorbi in power? To be honest I think he did the best with what he had. The Gommies relied on foreign revenue from oil too much (sound familiar?)

>>51507256
Most of the Warsaw Pact hated them too so they were loosing anything that might be considered allies in Europe.

>>51504521
Because Communism and Socialism are retarded economic models

extended bullying by americhads.

>>51508244
This