Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político
They gave up
The number of books and monographs written on the reasons for the fall of the former USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has almost reached the third thousand, as well as the thousands of explanations by specialists and professors of Political Science and International Relations, Economists, journalists and Anthropologists and his fellow sociologists, I have a strong preference over the opinion of a non-specialist and non-scholler, but a simple and elderly ex-Soviet citizen who was born at the end of the Second World War, specialists in social and political behavior would say that public opinion needs follow the dictates and techniques of scientific and social research and the research methodology, with the election of samples according to the curve of statistical probabilities of Gauss, even running the risk of being based on a survey or poll, or even less, on the unique opinion of a Soviet citizen that represents the spirit of ordinary people.
They just got tired of fighting.
The Soviet elder I am referring to repeats the same hunch of Stalin's granddaughter who lives and currently resides in the USA, and who repeated that there are no two opposing countries that are more similar when it comes to social and political behavior than the former USSR and the USA, according to her, the systems of political and social control of the two achieve the same results with economically different methods.
What they have in common is that social control systems use spying methods through agencies like Russia's NKVD, and the NSA both scrutinize the personal communications of all citizens and promote social cancellation of adversaries and dissidents in different ways. in executing the sentence, but the result is the same on both sides.
The Cuban system of social control, or that of North Korea, or the USSR, produces short-term results, as it happens in the current phase in Venezuela, where people tend to resist at the risk of their own lives, participating in mass demonstrations on public roads. , and after thousands of deaths, arrests and banishments, a few million flee the country, as is currently happening in Argentina, and then comes the terminal phase as Cuba, North Korea, where people simply give up resistance, but it is not the victory of oppression, on the contrary, the economy suffers a depression, not because of the abandonment of large companies, but simply because people give up on living, surrender to apathy and cynicism, they don't mind dwelling among the rubble, among cars falling to the ground. pieces, in streets without maintenance and with great shortages of everything, electricity, water, basic services, barely survive.
The Raketa watch factory produced watches of the same prestige level as Cartier, Rolex, Tag Heuer watches, which for more than two centuries was the watch of the Tsars and the dynasty, because after five decades of communist regime the same skilled workers and the same machinery did not reproduce the quality of the same models that for decades made the name respected throughout Europe. All the employees lost their enthusiasm and that was the explanation of the old manager of the Russian watch factory.
