• Coding4Fun@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Not exactly true. USSR, felt without a single drop o blood, most because it’s economic opening movement started too late. US government is taking actions that are isolating US commercially, increasing its debt and losing relevance in the world’s diplomacy.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      The USSR wasn’t an Empire, which played into that. Further, the reforms it introduced weren’t because it opened up too late, but because they played against the socialist system of planning. The PRC’s approach to economic reform retained full state control and is focused on unity, rather than disunity, which is why it’s working.

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        2 hours ago

        Along of it history, yes. It’s fall, unless I am missing something, there was no fight.