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Actually it was 25 years. The decline of the Soviet Union started with Brezhnev - Khruschev had the revolutionary idea for communist that economic of a country and some form of free enterprise and free culture are important.
If his reforms were allowed to continue who knows how much different the world would have been today
Big K had indeed many revolutionary ideas, all of them stupid.
Starting with denouncing his precedessor who was for thirty year worshipped as living god, undermining whole party and state legitimacy just to win some stupid personal power struggle.
The most hardcore tankies are 100% right about him.
Chinese did it better, they kept big M in the mausoleum, kept his statues and portraits everywhere while doing 180 degrees turn from his policy.
Otherwise, none of his reform had anything with "free enterprise" and "free culture."
Not hunt for abstract art, not renewal of religious persecution, not abolition of machine tractor stations, not destruction of workers cooperatives, not destruction of peasant's private plots, not the maximally demented corn idea.
Set aside this thing, equivalent of waving BB gun at heavily armed and armored cops and saying "Boo, pigs!"
May he be reborn thousand of thousands times as pig on factory farm.
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