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I think it's pretty uncontroversial that the USSR ended on a low note.
Decades of economic isolation by western powers, constant conflict with the usa, loss of faith in the government through some of the destalinisation measures and liberalisation of the economy all took their toll.
If history had gone a bit differently and revolutions elsewhere hadn't been stamped out paving the way for the rise of the Nazis and the ascension of the USA on the back of nuclear horror things might've gone a lot better.
They would not, the very the idea was corrupted to the core. By stamping out Prague spring the Chinese scenario of limited or experimental capitalism was made impossible. It would collapsed on itself anyways. Source: grew up in post communist country, seen the results
You saw the results of capitalism's shock therapy. I dunno how you can be this dumb at blaming at a problem on something's ABSCENCE
Suppressing NATO-backed nazis is not a bad thing, contrary to what you claim.
So you've seen the results of neoliberalism and you blame Communism for that?
I've added some citations to your post:
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