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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
(www.resilience.org)
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something is very off in that article
Reducing the USSR to just Russia, claiming that this "Russia" was somehow not ethnically diverse, Solshenizin soloing the USSR - according to the author, the usual ramblings about muh inefficient government factories, the pink lensed idea of how the US handles protest and dissent.
Yeah, I get what you mean.
thanks for elaborating better, comrade. another thing that ticked me was the separation of socialism to how soviet union was structured, instead of the other way. this is why i thought about chauvinism, in my understanding he points that su was prepared because russians toughened up through hardships
Do elaborate.
some parts of it sounds like social chauvinism.
That's fair, but overall analysis seems to be sound. The parts I found particularly interesting were around things like city planning and infrastructure where USSR was planned around communal living, and that made it possible for people to create mutual aid networks to get through the hard times. On the other hand, US has a big suburbia and car culture which is far more problematic in time of shortages and insecurity.
Definitely written by a liberal or worse. But they make great points, outside of calling USSR an evil empire et al ad nauseum