The USSR Died from Coercive Control

The Soviet authorities had overplayed their hand. That’s right: the U.S.S.R. was dissolved because of an attempt by those in charge of the U.S.S.R. to use energy to blackmail Belorussia by freezing it during the bitter cold winter.

The U.S.S.R. died because of a botched negotiation by the U.S.S.R. which thought it could hold millions of its own people hostage by freezing them.

Thirty-three-years later the successor state to the Soviet Union would use the same blackmail strategy on Ukraine…

Source: Pensees (100)

History as parable. The USSR itself died from overplaying coercive control — trying to freeze millions of its own citizens into compliance. Thirty-three years later, the successor state repeats the identical strategy. CC addicts cannot learn from consequences because the addiction IS the state.

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