- -This is right. But the final collapse of USSR seems to be related to other - -variables, not only to forced collectivization/industrialization in the 30?s - -(althought I wouldn?t heve the answers if you asked me what could be - -done to avoid the USSR collapse)
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For one thing, the USSR got addicted to high oil prices in the 70s and so didn't bother to modernize its industry. What for, if you've got all those oil dollars coming in?
Chris Doss The Russia Journal