@dominusowenmarkham

"The Soviets didn’t collapse because America outspent them, exactly. They collapsed because the information flowing upward through their system had been so thoroughly filtered by so many layers of people whose careers depended on telling the right story that by the time Gorbachev arrived, the actual condition of the Soviet economy was genuinely, structurally unknown to the people nominally in charge of it. They had been running on a highlight reel for seventy years."

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