Even though Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev went on to criticize the post-Maoist CCP when it allowed for PRC millionaires as having lost the socialist path, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union itself turned to privatization.
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It's funny but I also find it incredibly stupid and petty given the fact that these are the two largest socialist countries and if they could have avoided the split, where could we be now? It's sad
Can someone upload the video, where the two of them eat with chopsticks?
<<Deng Xiaoping: As one of the participants in this polemics, I, one can say, played an important role in it. Almost 30 years have passed since then. Turning one’s sights to the past, one should say that many words, which were then being said by both sides, turned out to be empty.
Gorbachev: I can’t judge [and] I will take your word for it. I share your thought but 30 years did not pass in vain—we were able to figure many things out. And our commitment to socialist ideals did not lessen from this; by contrast, we rose to a new level of comprehension of socialism.>>
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