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How it all came down: The story of the last leader of the USSR

The David McWilliams Podcast

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What Happened When the Soviet Union Collided?

When you became hungry, glizzily hungry. We started to run out of food, right? The supply chines. What happened in russia was that the food supply system of the centrally planned organization began to unravel. So suddenly there were longer cues and longer cues for buter, for bread, for meat, and then suddenly there was nothing. In the village in ruse, people started reigion like ycame a bit anxious about things. And then people started to panicy. That's what can have. Happens when you take the lid off itye it was a bit like the internet, before the interest. Every folk in egypt has a newspaper. I sa

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