phil said: Kasz216 said: The cold war cost Russia a lot. The country would of eventually collapsed anyway... Communism can't work outside of a vacuum, but it would of took longer. |
Absolute nonsense. Maybe PURE communism won't work in reality, but if they hadn't had Brezhnev for almost 20 years or if Andropov hadn't died, the Soviets may well have still been around today. Given incompetent enough leaders, any political system will collapse. |
That only applies if the ruling party can't be removed from power. How is a democracy going to collapse? We have the choice to kick out party every several years.