So this retard showed up out of nowhere, played the clown, stopped tanks in the streets, collapsed the largest empire known to man overnight and drank himself to death?
>>217195398Yeah. Just another Tuesday in Russia.
>>217195398gorbachev wasn't an alcoholic though
>>217195398yes
Is it truly Yeltsin’s fault that Russia became an oligarchy?
>>217195398Pretty sure King George VI didn't drink himself to death.
>>217195398The Soviet Union collapsed on its own. Since the 1980s, there had been severe food shortages. Perhaps the idea of spending all the money on useless tanks and missiles that would then rot and rust for decades was not the best one.