How would knowledge of everyday life or people's experience in the Soviet union give you any knowledge of the grand scale geopolitics that took place at the very top? Only a handful of people know that information. The best publicly available account of 20th c. history is C. Quigley's Tragedy and Hope.
The fact is the Soviet Union was propped up by the western financial elite as an "experiment in scientific government" (G.B. Shaw, B. Russell, H.G. Wells) and garnered much support during Lenin's reign. Its existence was entirely dependent on western financing and they killed it effectively by stopping the money flow and in the 90's stepped in to plunder what was left, establishing their banks and institutions there.
How would knowledge of everyday life or people's experience in the Soviet union give you any knowledge of the grand scale geopolitics that took place at the very top? Only a handful of people know that information. The best publicly available account of 20th c. history is C. Quigley's Tragedy and Hope.
The fact is the Soviet Union was propped up by the western financial elite as an "experiment in scientific government" (G.B. Shaw, B. Russell, H.G. Wells) and garnered much support during Lenin's reign. Its existence was entirely dependent on western financing and they killed it effectively by stopping the money flow and in the 90's stepped in to plunder what was left, establishing their banks and institutions there.
totally agree with factdigger here
No, it's US and Russia. US is too dependent on China's economy and manufacturing to do anything against them and China needs the market.