system was decent, but, you know, highly ideologically directed, if you will. And so it wasn't as alien the world, maybe in the 50s and 60s it was, but the time the 70s came around, it was not as alien the world at all. But by the 80s, then the bloom was off the rose completely. And that's where, you know, perestroika started happening and that's where it collapsed, or whatever you want to call it, accelerated. Right. So how much of it was that corruption and things like that, that perestroika prompted the search for reform, the attempt to reform Soviet communism without dissolving it? It was, I hate to say that similar to what's going on in the United States, I mean, it became clear that the system, as it existed in real life as opposed to in ideological slogans, was not delivering for the majority of the population. It just wasn't delivering. And, you know, at some point the rubber meets the road and that's usually at the refrigerator where there's no food in it or not enough food in (32/96)
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