“the disintegration of the Soviet Union was one of the most astonishing events in modern history…The largest and most threatening empire in the world, with 5 million soldiers in Soviet garrisons from Budapest to Vladivostok, fell apart in just 6 years” nytimes.com/2002/01/20/boo… 
“what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union...in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt. And they knew that the bosses knew they knew. Everyone knew it was fake” economist.com/open-future/20…
"I was a loyal Soviet citizen until age 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen is to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie" knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/activi…
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