Why I had to leave the USSR

As Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, we look at the opportunities Russia failed to take after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This is a meditation on the collapse of the USSR, why Russia failed to take the opportunity that followed, and where this leaves the world here and now.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 story of how Russia turned against the West
00:25 USSR in the 1980s
02:12 USSR cost of living
04:20 USSR opening up to the West - McDonalds
05:17 the West - first impressions
06:32 Russia in the 1990s
07:16 Putin regime
08:48 What's next and how do we react?

Music:
Feodor Chaliapin, Ochi Chernie
Rachmaninoff Concerto No 2, Richter, Wislocki, Warsaw NPO, 1959