Austria is fucked
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Well that collapse took 70 years and only happened because Michail Gorbatchev was an extraordinary person.
So no! totalitarian regimes are there to stay.
Fall of the Berlin Wall anyone?
The rest of the Soviet satellite states collapsed too.
Yes, but that took decades.
No, it didn't take decades. It happened suddenly, and all at once. East Germany could have gone on for a long, long time. They were a competently run commie dictatorship, if there is such a thing. It was Germans after all.
Nobody expected it, it was a total surprise, especially the Berlin Wall falling. One day, there were crowds, to big to handle, and the East German government wasn't going to send in the tanks like the Chinese and slaughter their own people.
Yeah, youre right. But generations went by under that tyranny before it ended was my point.
If the checks from the Soviets were still paying them they would have
Okay Doomer.