How despotism dies. USSR experience and possible prospects of China
The head of the Chinese state Xi Jinping 30 years ago, December 25, 1991, the final collapse of the USSR, the symbol of which was the resignation of its last leader, overshadowed the main thing for many. There was a collapse not only of the empire, but by the system - " real socialism " , the purpose of which since 1917 was the global destruction of economic and political freedom. 1991 was the year of the parade not so much sovereignty as democracy.