maybe fell a bit sooner and faster than expected, but surely the USA/UK etc. wouldn’t have employed sanctions, trade restrictions, and embargoes against the USSR if they didn’t expect it to work …
They expected it to have an impact, my point is that from within the USSR dissolution didn’t seem to be a real probability until the very end. It was killed by the Yeltsin faction, not unsustainability.
That was just the catalyst for what was already long-predicted.
The fall of the USSR was predicted too… mostly by those responsible 😅
Not really, up to the very end it was seen as absurd that it would fall.
maybe fell a bit sooner and faster than expected, but surely the USA/UK etc. wouldn’t have employed sanctions, trade restrictions, and embargoes against the USSR if they didn’t expect it to work …
They expected it to have an impact, my point is that from within the USSR dissolution didn’t seem to be a real probability until the very end. It was killed by the Yeltsin faction, not unsustainability.