[Potemkin]

So what..

The USSR had just collapsed, the country was a wreck.

The country was deliberately wrecked, @late.

[annatar1914]

The country was deliberately wrecked, @late.

@Potemkin ;

Indeed my friend. It's quite a sight to live amid the ruins, people working with a feverish energy to survive, and endure in a manner that is beyond the capacity of the modern West to understand. You have to know the code;

[late]

The country was deliberately wrecked, @late.

They wrecked themselves.

[wat0n]

They wrecked themselves.

And specifically by being overly inflexible, which is why now China gets to replace the Soviets in opposing the US.

Central planning eventually fails yet while the Chinese managed to learn soon enough, it had become too late for the Soviets to do so.