Suppliers for the previously mentioned chains are still likely to be unavailable, making the statement that only the names are changing likely false. Also Domino's sucks.
Domino's Pizza is keeping its restaurants open in Russia despite other multinational brands such as McDonald's and KFC backing out of the country. DP Eurasia, which owns the master franchisee for Domino's in Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, said its 188 stores in the country are open. So frick Pizza Hut and order our Russian three topping special carryout deal.
Because he was a Western plant. Posters here will call me le communist troony for saying this, but it has never actually been argued against in earnest.
It is obvious that he did not like the Soviet Union and was going to do what was necessary to make it disappear. He trusted in the West to make the Soviet Union disappear
He thought America wouldn't be cynical and play to win if he showed weakness, and this lead to him imploding the USSR - and for a time Gorbachev was very popular... in the West. He's forever going to be seen by his people as the man who sold them out.
The world is destroyed because his birth and his stupidity.
It's cause him we can't afford a house and wages are stagnated and health debts are high, it's cause him the environment is being destroyed, it's cause of him the world is misery and the fact he's not been giving the trotsky to this day is evidence against the existence of God. I hate this man more than Boris, why do evil people are allowed to live and stupid people not kill them.
The Russians' butthurt about this man is delicious.
And in reality all he wanted to do was to transform the USSR into an actual and workable union because it's economy was in freefail.
Gorbachev failed in his reforms because USSR turned out to be not an organic state but an empire of the Russian ethnicity in which other nations were held by a brutal fist and threat of tanks rolling in. When the outlying republics found that they won't be massacred for trying to break away, they simply did it.
Lol. If you actually believe in this then you are genuinely moronic.
Economically USSR was stagnating since 1970s and the economic and technological gap with the West was widening.
Bu the main point with "workable union" was that it wasn't union at all, it was an empire of the Russians and everyone else (sans perhaps Central Asians) was held there by threat of violence.
To reiterate. Gorbachev thought that once people can freely speak their minds, they will work towards making USSR a better place.
In reality, when people learnt they can speak they minds, they wanted freedom from the USSR.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This is revisionism. With a few exceptions, nationalism of the different republics of the Soviet Union was low. Gorbachev's reforms hit a wall when he faced powerful interest groups within the energy-military-industrial-farming lobbies that had hijacked government policy for decades. When Gorbachev came to power he was the weakest General Secretary in that regard. Still, the Communist Party held so strong that the only way to overthrow it was to dissolve the country itself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Regional nationalism wasn't low. It was cowed into submission by state violence. There's a reason why nationalism exploded when only the threat of state violence subsided.
>Lol. If you actually believe in this then you are genuinely moronic. >He says without elaborating
>Muh stagnating >Where even western/cia groups admit their gdp would surpass them in 2000s >Speaks of economical and tech gap without evidence
>Call it empire of Russians >Despite majority of their leaders being non-Russians and minorities were giving equal treatment if not favorism, despite Russians in fact were the most to die and put in gulags
LOL
Yeah sure buddy, the place with several hour long breadlines will surpass the US in the 2000s
USSR stagnation is a fricking fact. And no amount of eristics can bend reality. The Soviets were well know to fetishize all kinds of numbers and statistics, especially those that could be extrapolated for decades ahead to show supposed superiority of the system. In reality though USSR struggled to feed and clothe it's population and was completely unable to design and almost incapable to produce such mundane things like personal computers. No new technology was developed in USSR after 1960s and the supposed superpower had to resort to stealing technologies from the West.
As to cultural policies, minorities were literally told that they should speak Russian and Ukrainians were taught at schools that their language is a bastardized Russian dialect and speaking it is as cultured as farting. Yes, a minority member could be tokenized into a leadership position, but only on the condition of total acculturation into Russianism.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Mundane >Bleeding Edge Computers
The reason behind Soviet stagnation in computers is because the leadership got a case of inferiority complex and decided to just copy American shit instead of continuing the trend of Soviet innovation, which was genuily innovative up to that point.
2 years ago
Anonymous
As usual. Russians almost succeeded but something held them back at the last moment.
Whatever. Even if we believe this bullshit excuse, the fact is that USSR was unable to computerize while that revolution was ongoing in the West. Sort of defeats the idea that somehow USSR would surpass the West by 2000 or any actual date.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The decision can be tracked to 1970 when the government decided to end original development in the industry, encouraging the pirating of Western systems.An alternative option, a partnership with the Britain-based International Computers Limited, was considered but ultimately rejected.The ES EVM mainframe, launched in 1971, was based on the IBM/360 system. The copying was possible because although the IBM/360 system implementation was protected by a number of patents, IBM published a description of the system's architecture (enabling the creation of competing implementations).
The Soviet Academy of Sciences, which had been a major player in Soviet computer development, could not compete with the political influence of the powerful ministries and was relegated to a monitoring role.Hardware research and development became the responsibility of research institutes attached to the ministries. By the early 1970s, with chip technology becoming increasingly relevant to defense applications, Zelenograd emerged as the center of the Soviet microprocessing industry; foreign technology designs were imported, legally or otherwise.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The decision to beg, borrow and outright steal Western computer tech was made because by 1970s there was already a two-generational gap between Western computers and those made in the Soviet Union. This is exemplified by how the Soviet struggled to design and produce miniaturized transistors.
The general idea however was sound. This was more or less the same way Japan and later China modernized. They absorbed Western tech, reverse-engineered it and poured massive resources into further developing them. However, here's where the limitations of the Soviet system kicked in. Soviets might have some good theoretical ideas but were absolutely unable to put them into practice. They absolutely lacked the capacity to implement any improvements. MOreover, they even by and large lacked the capacity to produce components with the same precision as the Western counterparts, which made even their knockoffs of Western computers to be clunky and less capable.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Edge Computers
Home computers weren't exactly "bleeding age" in 1980s.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Lol. If you actually believe in this then you are genuinely moronic. >He says without elaborating
>Muh stagnating >Where even western/cia groups admit their gdp would surpass them in 2000s >Speaks of economical and tech gap without evidence
>Call it empire of Russians >Despite majority of their leaders being non-Russians and minorities were giving equal treatment if not favorism, despite Russians in fact were the most to die and put in gulags
thank you gorbie
Imagine that he had succeded and the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics existed nowadays.
Ja consume das product und drink the onions milk und onions pizza mit zee bugs. It is gut vie stoptf ze Soviet Union.
Do Russians generally hate or love this man?
Hate. But Yeltsin is hated more.
>But Yeltsin is hated more.
Why does Yeltsin hate Gorbachev? I thought they were friends, I mean the two of them colluded to bring down the Soviet Union, right?
They despise him because he tried to give them freedom.
Many such cases
Russians succumb to Gorby's charms as well, Gorbymania. And his most prominent fan is none other than Putin.
91 years old now & still kicking ass
>Because of him we have many things, like pizza hut:
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO
So, they just eat Pizza Hut and KFC with a different name...
Suppliers will change
not on gorby's watch!
Suppliers for the previously mentioned chains are still likely to be unavailable, making the statement that only the names are changing likely false. Also Domino's sucks.
Domino's Pizza is keeping its restaurants open in Russia despite other multinational brands such as McDonald's and KFC backing out of the country. DP Eurasia, which owns the master franchisee for Domino's in Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, said its 188 stores in the country are open. So frick Pizza Hut and order our Russian three topping special carryout deal.
Legit why was this dude so trusting of westerners? I mean, he must have known of all the bullshit western powers pulled off historically.
Because he was a Western plant. Posters here will call me le communist troony for saying this, but it has never actually been argued against in earnest.
It is obvious that he did not like the Soviet Union and was going to do what was necessary to make it disappear. He trusted in the West to make the Soviet Union disappear
He thought America wouldn't be cynical and play to win if he showed weakness, and this lead to him imploding the USSR - and for a time Gorbachev was very popular... in the West. He's forever going to be seen by his people as the man who sold them out.
Fricking anti-christ
The world is destroyed because his birth and his stupidity.
It's cause him we can't afford a house and wages are stagnated and health debts are high, it's cause him the environment is being destroyed, it's cause of him the world is misery and the fact he's not been giving the trotsky to this day is evidence against the existence of God. I hate this man more than Boris, why do evil people are allowed to live and stupid people not kill them.
meds
In this economy, I doubt I can afford it.
we can tell
Many republic**ts can't either that's why they on welfare.
they tried to put me on the school bus with space for the wheelchair
The Russians' butthurt about this man is delicious.
And in reality all he wanted to do was to transform the USSR into an actual and workable union because it's economy was in freefail.
Gorbachev failed in his reforms because USSR turned out to be not an organic state but an empire of the Russian ethnicity in which other nations were held by a brutal fist and threat of tanks rolling in. When the outlying republics found that they won't be massacred for trying to break away, they simply did it.
>USSR into an actual and workable union
It's was already workable and would have surpass the US in 2000s
His actions made it worse.
Lol. If you actually believe in this then you are genuinely moronic.
Economically USSR was stagnating since 1970s and the economic and technological gap with the West was widening.
Bu the main point with "workable union" was that it wasn't union at all, it was an empire of the Russians and everyone else (sans perhaps Central Asians) was held there by threat of violence.
To reiterate. Gorbachev thought that once people can freely speak their minds, they will work towards making USSR a better place.
In reality, when people learnt they can speak they minds, they wanted freedom from the USSR.
This is revisionism. With a few exceptions, nationalism of the different republics of the Soviet Union was low. Gorbachev's reforms hit a wall when he faced powerful interest groups within the energy-military-industrial-farming lobbies that had hijacked government policy for decades. When Gorbachev came to power he was the weakest General Secretary in that regard. Still, the Communist Party held so strong that the only way to overthrow it was to dissolve the country itself.
Regional nationalism wasn't low. It was cowed into submission by state violence. There's a reason why nationalism exploded when only the threat of state violence subsided.
>Lol. If you actually believe in this then you are genuinely moronic.
>He says without elaborating
>Muh stagnating
>Where even western/cia groups admit their gdp would surpass them in 2000s
>Speaks of economical and tech gap without evidence
>Call it empire of Russians
>Despite majority of their leaders being non-Russians and minorities were giving equal treatment if not favorism, despite Russians in fact were the most to die and put in gulags
LOL
Yes. https://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/why-does-the-soviet-economy-appear.pdf
USSR stagnation is a fricking fact. And no amount of eristics can bend reality. The Soviets were well know to fetishize all kinds of numbers and statistics, especially those that could be extrapolated for decades ahead to show supposed superiority of the system. In reality though USSR struggled to feed and clothe it's population and was completely unable to design and almost incapable to produce such mundane things like personal computers. No new technology was developed in USSR after 1960s and the supposed superpower had to resort to stealing technologies from the West.
As to cultural policies, minorities were literally told that they should speak Russian and Ukrainians were taught at schools that their language is a bastardized Russian dialect and speaking it is as cultured as farting. Yes, a minority member could be tokenized into a leadership position, but only on the condition of total acculturation into Russianism.
>Mundane
>Bleeding Edge Computers
The reason behind Soviet stagnation in computers is because the leadership got a case of inferiority complex and decided to just copy American shit instead of continuing the trend of Soviet innovation, which was genuily innovative up to that point.
As usual. Russians almost succeeded but something held them back at the last moment.
Whatever. Even if we believe this bullshit excuse, the fact is that USSR was unable to computerize while that revolution was ongoing in the West. Sort of defeats the idea that somehow USSR would surpass the West by 2000 or any actual date.
The decision can be tracked to 1970 when the government decided to end original development in the industry, encouraging the pirating of Western systems.An alternative option, a partnership with the Britain-based International Computers Limited, was considered but ultimately rejected.The ES EVM mainframe, launched in 1971, was based on the IBM/360 system. The copying was possible because although the IBM/360 system implementation was protected by a number of patents, IBM published a description of the system's architecture (enabling the creation of competing implementations).
The Soviet Academy of Sciences, which had been a major player in Soviet computer development, could not compete with the political influence of the powerful ministries and was relegated to a monitoring role.Hardware research and development became the responsibility of research institutes attached to the ministries. By the early 1970s, with chip technology becoming increasingly relevant to defense applications, Zelenograd emerged as the center of the Soviet microprocessing industry; foreign technology designs were imported, legally or otherwise.
The decision to beg, borrow and outright steal Western computer tech was made because by 1970s there was already a two-generational gap between Western computers and those made in the Soviet Union. This is exemplified by how the Soviet struggled to design and produce miniaturized transistors.
The general idea however was sound. This was more or less the same way Japan and later China modernized. They absorbed Western tech, reverse-engineered it and poured massive resources into further developing them. However, here's where the limitations of the Soviet system kicked in. Soviets might have some good theoretical ideas but were absolutely unable to put them into practice. They absolutely lacked the capacity to implement any improvements. MOreover, they even by and large lacked the capacity to produce components with the same precision as the Western counterparts, which made even their knockoffs of Western computers to be clunky and less capable.
Edge Computers
Home computers weren't exactly "bleeding age" in 1980s.
And as to purges, minorities were specifically targeted in "ethnic" operations of the NKVD.
no they weren't.
Google "Polish operation" or '"Deportation of Tatars".
Literally go frick yourself, pathetic Russian.
Never happened.
Yeah sure buddy, the place with several hour long breadlines will surpass the US in the 2000s