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Originally Posted by Aramike
First off, just because one is in the vicinity of an event occuring, it in no way means that person knows what they are talking about.
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You mean, by not being at the actual event but by listening to the Fox news, one would get a better idea on what's going on
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Originally Posted by Aramike
Secondly, you're clearly taking the very short-sighted view. Did you bother to consider what actions brought to bear the economic pressures that caused the people in Eastern Germany and the USSR to be susceptible to this type of revolution? Sure, those people did the legwork - legwork that wouldn't have been possible had the USSR not spent itself into oblivion.
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Economic pressures on population as being the main reason for the revolution in the USSR is to large extent a myth cultivated by US and western media. In seventies despite high oil prices, those economic pressures on the population were much worse compared to eighties (again speaking from experience of being there, not from listening to the media).
Stealth Hunter offered quite a view by comparing the USSR destruction with that of the Roman empire but I do not think that is it.
The starting and important point here is Gorbachev. He was a politician of new generation and formation. Naturally, he was and actually is a strong communism supporter but long before getting into power he thought that the actual system is wrong. He wanted to revise the system but underestimated the fact that Russia as whole its history says is a country of extremes. Instead, people started to push hard for having all the changes immediately which broke the whole thing.