USSR 1922-1991, USA 1776-2025?

What we can learn from Soviet stagnation and disintegration

Thirty years ago today the Soviet Union came to an end.  This is not an occasion for triumphalism.  It is a warning.

Stagnation, or the absence of a future, was the underlying Soviet problem. Stalinism had created temporary social mobility in the Soviet Union, if at the cost of millions of deaths and the creation of the largest prison system in the world…