re: Why did the soviet union collapse?

They were only a superpower on paper, hell bananas were a luxury item and grocery stores didn’t exist

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Socialism does not grow wealth.


Tell that to china

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Hmmm, sure about that? Might be a good idea to see who exactly controls the wealth in China. Hint: It isn’t the people.

Modern Russia is very different

China did not really explode until they assumed Hong Kong and the financial strength of the British System there. At that point ...Chinese working outside the slave labor trade ....taught the Chinese how to make money and expand an empire.

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the USSR was sponsoring revolutions all over the globe, and truly embraced Trotskys concept of a constant and permanent war.

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Early on, this was true. In later years (more recent times), the Russian identity became more prevalent as the old revolutionary fervor waned. By the time of Gorbachev, the Soviets and Russia were mostly indistinguishable except that It became variations on a theme of party leadership personality cults driving things. Their own revolution successfully melded the assorted ethnicities into one Soviet Russian super State for a time. But then things sort of broke apart, as it appeared the old model had succumbed to Western might. I think they may simply have shifted over to Plan B. BTW notice the old Revolutionary fervor had been adopted by Maoist China, but that too has devolved into simply a Communistic totalitarian and nationalistic State, not particularly interested in anything of a Bolshevik flavor…because that could actually also threaten them.