Democracy Killed The Soviets, and Authoritarianism Is Killing America

The great irony of the cold war

Gorbachev announcing that he (and the Soviet Union) were peacing out, Christmas Day, 1991

The weird thing about Soviet collapse was how democratic it was. By 1991, Ukraine already had an elected President and Parliament. 90% of Ukrainian people voted to leave in a referendum. The other republics eventually followed them out. It was the original Brexit, only better managed.