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[–] 7 points 2 months ago

Maybe controversial on Lemmy, but Gorbachev would have. The USSR could just as easily have let go of idealism as totalitarianism, and gone full evil empire.

It seems more likely they'd be split half and half, since every decision they make has to be compared against some hypothetical replacement leader.

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