• In =?UTF-8?B?aGlzdG9yeeKAmXM=?= latest surprising twist, just who really are the late Soviets now? =?UTF-8?B?4oCm?=

    From Nick@ddantgwyn@mail.ru to soc.culture.bulgaria on Sun Sep 7 08:27:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: soc.culture.bulgaria

    In historyrCOs latest surprising twist, just who really are the late
    Soviets now?

    China no longer seems to be in danger of following the USSRrCOs fate,
    instead Britain and the US are heading in that direction

    Alex Loin Toronto
    Published: 8:00am, 2 Sep 2025

    Long after the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, Westerners and,
    secretly, even some within China, were thinking that if the communist
    country was going to follow the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, the crackdown would have been the trigger.

    But history is full of surprises.

    Nowadays, some prominent intellectuals in the Anglo-American world are fretting over whether their own countries are looking a lot like the late Soviets. The historical parallels they have drawn are plausible.

    Even some mainstream newspaper op-eds have been borrowing from the
    analogy. rCLBritain is the Soviet Union in the 1980s,rCY one opinion writer declared this week in The Telegraph.

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    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323932/historys-latest-surprising-twist-just-who-really-are-late-soviets-now

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