1991. Death of USSR and liberation of Russia by Russian nationalists led by Yeltsin

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Woohoo! The tricolor is back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

@Ultima Thule @Yaseen1 @Philip the Arab @vostok @zzzz @mike2000 is back @KAL-EL @zectech @gambit @Figaro @F-22Raptor

 

[Yaseen1]

very painful day in russian history due to wrong decision of invading afghanistan by miscalculating outcome of war and overestimating capability of their military power

 

[Beast]

Fall of Soviet Union is a disaster for Russian. Their standard of living never get back to 70s and early 80s standard. Most Russians now living in poverty.

 

[Beast]

Woohoo! The tricolor is back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia

Yeltsin is a traitor and Gorbachev is a weakling. If Soviet that time has a man like Deng, things will turn out differently now.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

very painful day in russian history due to wrong decision of invading afghanistan by miscalculating outcome of war and overestimating capability of their military power

Has nothing to do with Afghanistan.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Yeltsin is a traitor and Gorbachev is a weakling. If Soviet that time has a man like Deng, things will turn out differently now.

Better than USSR times when the Russian minority had to take care of the non Russian basket case majority.

 

[zectech]

Yeltsin is a traitor and Gorbachev is a weakling. If Soviet that time has a man like Deng, things will turn out differently now.

Teaching experience for the rest of the world. If you do exactly what the West wants, they overthrow you and begin a looting operation. Russia to this day is still being looted and the population suffers. Gorbachev sought peace with the West, Washington had other plans for Moscow.

Bushes looted Russia. Now the Carlyle Group are planning to loot the Federal Reserve. If that is not underway too.

9/11 was the cover for the looting operation in Russia. Is CoronavirUS cover for the looting operation of the Federal Reserve.

 

[Figaro]

very painful day in russian history due to wrong decision of invading afghanistan by miscalculating outcome of war and overestimating capability of their military power

There is an extremely common misconception/myth that Afghanistan led to the collapse of the USSR. This is simply not true. At most, only 26k Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan in an 8 year period ... and the cost of the war was relatively small due only around 100k Soviet troops being stationed in Afghanistan. The largest contributors to the collapse by far was the Soviet Union's poor economy (lack of consumer goods for one thing), rapid liberalization via Glasnost/Perestroika which made everyone question the USSR ideology, and anger towards the Soviet's government secrecy such as Chernobyl aftermath. Afghanistan was at most a minor cause to this.

Better than USSR times when the Russian minority had to take care of the non Russian basket case majority.

The Russians were the majority ethnicity in the USSR ... I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

There is an extremely common misconception/myth that Afghanistan led to the collapse of the USSR. This is simply not true. At most, only 26k Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan in an 8 year period ... and the cost of the war was relatively small due only around 100k Soviet troops being stationed in Afghanistan. The largest contributors to the collapse by far was the Soviet Union's poor economy (lack of consumer goods for one thing), rapid liberalization via Glasnost/Perestroika which made everyone question the USSR ideology, and anger towards the Soviet's government secrecy such as Chernobyl aftermath. Afghanistan was at most a minor cause to this.

The Russians were the majority ethnicity in the USSR ... I don't know what you're talking about.

USSR has population 300 million. Ethnic Russian was less than 150 million.