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Episode 51: A Russian Marxist's Perspective (ft. Konstantin Syomin)

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Is the Fall of the Soviet Dream Unavoidable?

The power vacuum left after the falling apart of the socialist experiment or could have I don't know destiny to use to be relatively silly here could have taken us into a different direction. The process had gone too far it was unstoppable once you have capital in the system it will smash its way forward and it did so within the Soviet economy there were tiny capitals again in each and every of its ethnic republics  the national conflicts were predetermined they were unavoidable.

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