Did the fall of the USSR save the planet from communism?

Question

Maybe not since were have so many in the US now trying to rewrite history.

Answer 1

Yes, I think so. The Domino theory is really true. Look at USSR at the beginning of WWII and then before the Cold War finished. So many countries fell the communism, it's good that Russia fell.

Answer 2

Soviet Russia was on the downfall since the Brezhnev (sp?) era. Naturally the fall of the Soviet Union made Russian Communism look less appealing to a large number, but look at Chinese Communism! China is becoming a more and more powerful nation, just look in Wal-Mart, everything is made there!
Also we can look at South America. More and more nations are turning away from their United States backed governments and shifting towards a more left-wing socialistic government, which is moving closer.
Africa had been moving away from Communism for a while, with Namibia, and Tanzania both shedding their socialistic outlooks in favor of democracy.
Overall TRUE communism cannot work, it goes against human nature. People are greedy and cannot share that much equally. Of course Soviet Communism was not true communism and true communism only ever existed in Civil War Spain, and the hippie communes in the early 60's (of course the hippies brought back human lice and mange!).
So I don't think we'll see Soviet Communism again, but that does not mean that communism will not return in another form. Good question though!

Answer 3

Actually, it was falling away before the USSR finally collapsed in 1991-92. The fall of the USSR just sealed communism's fate. The remaining communist countries have either reformed their economies (Vietnam, China and Laos) or are based more on nationalism (i.e. Cuba) than communism. North Korea remains the isolated exception, and hopefully they will collapse soon.

Even China, which is the newest threat to the USA, is not communist in terms of economics, although politically it remains a brutal dictatorship.

Answer 4

It wasn't sudden at all. It was a slow gradual thing. Something over time, caused the government to become less and less oppressive. In the old days, open rebellion would have been met with immediate and unbelievable oppression. The Soviet government, for whatever reason did not intervene when people began to rebel. The people in all the various (now) contries that made up the former USSR made it collapse, and they did it quite peacefully. How much cause and effect upon the soviet government response to open rebellion that was made by western influence is going to take someone with a phd to evaluate.

Answer 5

"Save the planet from communism"???? Give me a break. You act like communism is a virus. It didn't work,( and that's why the "fall" of the USSR), because people were corrupt, greedy and not evolved enough to look toward the common good. It was a poorly done experiment, but it will always exist in history, and maybe will be tried again--in a thousand years or so.....

Answer 6

Unfortunately, no! There is still communism in China, Venezula, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and Loas. Not to mention a ton of communist sympathizers here in the US, that would love to see communism take over.

Answer 7

Other than Cuba and N Korea, yes. Russia, China and a host of others are enjoying economic freedom..for now. Booming economies. Of course oil or cheap labor help. But you do what it takes.

Answer 8

lol, do you also think if didn't beat vietnam the world would fall one by one to communism?

heres some news: we didn't win the war and the world still didn't fall to communism.

Answer 9

Do you know the difference between a question and unsubstantiated rhetoric?

Answer 10

We have China and the Clintons to deal with.