The Final End of the Soviet Union

From the seventies onwards, there's this general sort of disillusion in the seventies with this. And it's one reason why you know, some sections of the of intelligent cierans, or political class, gravitate towards neo-liberalism. You know, for me, it's really striking la that experience in the nineties, we've talked about before, of seeing like russian iety just collapsed,. The standard of liv unow, the life expectancy, collapsing in russia. It turns out that the presence of the soviet was a necessary preak to social democracy.