Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next

boreengreen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There weren’t really any super rich people in the USSR. There were people with a lot of influence and power, who had nicer houses, better food, clothes, etc. but they didn’t have a tons of money stashed away. You have to remember that Stalin viewed capitalism as the root of all evil and would kill rich people.

  And many of those influential people used that power after the fall to become super rich by snapping up former state assets. Which is seemingly part of their current goal in the US: Isolate the country and destroy government assets to privatize them. Literally trying to recreate the situation that created the 90s Russian oligarchs.

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  • anachronist@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.

    Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah fuck. It’s gonna be religious cults that do all that. The LDS and Scientologists already have lots of properties and oceans of assets to leverage for it, as well as the only sense of community most Americans ever experience.

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• luckystarr@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They literally bought the country from everybody else for scraps.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably took extended vacations to Montenegro or similar.

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Permanent vacations 6ft under.

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