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Gorbachev: I brought you freedom
Russians: what did it cost?
Gorbachev: everything
To be fair it’s one of the instances where one person wanted to change trajectory preceded by hundreds of years.
It takes time and if you force it, society might simply crumble.
In his defence he didn’t have decades in spare time seeing the coming end of dying empire. Let it be the lesson to accelerationists.