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SergeyDovlatov

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10. Can you clarify what military adventurism USSR was involved in?

Reply to NNN0LHI (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 08:06 PM

Apr 2012

Let's say if USSR funded radical fundamentalists to overthrow canadian government and Canada requested US help and US sent the troops to the north. Would you call it adventurism?

Collapse of oil prices in the 80s and inefficiencies of planned economy is what bankrupted the Soviet Union. Gorbachov started perestroika because he understood the need to modernize the economy.

Similar effort was done by Lenin in 20s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

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