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It's hard for me to see how that could happen.
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Sure, but nobody saw the Soviet Union collapse coming at the time, either.
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That might be a good one to research a little deeper. What life was like before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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I've seen a few different hypotheses and it doesn't seem like the proximate causes are fully established.
However, the sense I have is that they ceased being able to control public perception in a variety of ways and the end came quickly after that.
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Totalitarian regimes can fall very quickly and they can linger far longer than seems plausible.