The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economic Model

I don't think Gorbachev actually counts. He was left to frantically flail and try to improvise around the material reality that the Soviet economic model was in thermal crisis. Many of them chose the buyout because it was a better option. Now, this time there will be no buyout. China's got enough of its own people to deal with. And we've already, we don't have any more copper to strip but they had an entire state apparatus to sell off. Maybe some people can be bought into the greater, you know, synosphere, but only at the very, very top, not through the middle ranks. We'll see.