Reddit reviews Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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RANDOM HOUSE
Nope... these are treaties with third countries. This is the sole problem of the UK.
>when the USSR broke up, some agreements fell, new ones were put in place.
That is actually a good comparison. I thought a bit about it. I'm not sure, you are aware how the deep the transformation was there. It was worse than the IMF crisis in the 70'ies and probably only comparable to the Great depression. That is how the demand for unfettered sovereignty plays out today.
https://www.amazon.de/Secondhand-Time-Soviets-Svetlana-Alexievich/dp/0399588825
>And when did democracy of any kind become a meme?
Brexiters made it a meme. Referenda are not necessarily the best way to exert democracy. They are more a phenomenon of a decadent state. You can take Napoleon III.'s rise to power, the rise of the Nazis, women's suffrage in Switzerland (not before the 90'ies), or the Gracchians who were the last nail into the coffin of the antique Roman Republic before it fell into a civil war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy
>The UK and EU are parting ways, because they have different wants, aims and aspirations.
Yes. The problem is that the means of a sole nation state aren't sufficient to support the aspirations of the Brexiters. And still after two damn years, they aren't even able to formulate the problems, tradeoffs and hardships which lay down the road.
Secondhand Time is phenomenal and might be worth looking into.
I was blown away by some of the stories in Secondhand Time. The things people went through were just unreal. Even more surprising was the people who after going through hell still supported communism.