How to Prepare for a Communist Coup

[Jcp123]

Looking back, overwhelming majority of Russians believe it was a mistake to trust the West. They also realize that some of the measures unpopular at the time weren't without merit. What came after the break up of the Soviet Union was much worse than the shortages of consumer goods. Birth rates fell to the level of WWII.

Interesting, though I’m not surprised. Most of what I have learned was more about the GDR rather than Soviet Russia, but they mirror each other that way. GDR has it better than most Soviet satellites even back then, but it seems like people still weren’t ready to make the Western jump and join other Germans in reunification. A lot of this is still new to me, so I am still turning it over in my head.