Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's ...

The collapse of the USSR was a product of the unravelling of the post-war order and the intensification of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism between world economy and the bankrupt nation ...

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