edit: GUYS fuck stalin and fuck tankies, period. i understand that this community is more sensitive than most to pro-stalinist vibes, and i apologize for unintentionally twinging that nerve, but you need stop calling each other (and me) slurs.
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I think it's challenging to talk about the Soviet economy in the 1980s when the West was just coming out of a period of stagflation through massive financialisation and created an investment bubble that has continued to be propped up through stimulus spending since.
The ideological foundations were also so obviously weaked by the time of Gorbachev that would lead him to think that the US would do for the USSR what they did for Western Europe. After living through Vietnam, countless actions in South America and Afghanistan.
Of course, I totally agree. My comment was very broad and intended to just tell one part of the narrative. There was a lot going on and I for one think even as late as 1985 or 1986, the Soviet economy could have been rescued.