>>18634134
The Soviet Union was only held together by fear of the central government. The conquered countries (or rather the ethnic groups living there) wanted their independence back the moment they thought they could get away with it.

one of them gave unilateral authority to a national subdivision that constituted 75% of the GDP, landmass, and population of the union
it's life if deng created a specific premier for the han people

>>18634134
Khrushchev was a revisionist, and gorbachev was a retarded social democrat. the CPC learned that the party can never allow competitors or else capital will use them to destroy the state
but fundamentally its because the soviets got buttfucked by the nazis and lost a whole generation along with a huge portion of their economic base, and then had to compete with a superpower that suffered no meaningful losses in ww2. china got free development from the US, which they used to jumpstart their economy and now they've replaced the US as the primary economic power on the planet

>>18634134
Deng wasnt russian

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>>18634134
Gorby was too soft to keep a state like the USSR running. He was unwilling to run over dissidents with tanks like his predecessors.