The story that has been told in the West of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an oversimplification. The Soviet state was not sustained by policing and force alone.Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies may have assisted in the establishment of the USSR, and helped maintain its power, but these did not, in the end, prevent its collapse in 1991.No amount of r...
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