According to the speaker, when did the Soviet Union collapse?

Name: Why the Fall of the Soviet Union Barely Made a Dent #shorts
Uploaded: 2025-05-02T06:00:36+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Mike Koenigs
Description: Short video commentary arguing that the 1992 collapse of the Soviet Union had little immediate global economic impact because Western markets —…

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Why the Fall of the Soviet Union Barely Made a Dent #shorts

2 May 2025 · 0 min

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Short video commentary arguing that the 1992 collapse of the Soviet Union had little immediate global economic impact because Western markets — particularly the U.S. — remained open to goods from the former Soviet bloc, and mainstream media/markets largely continued unaffected. The speaker emphasizes the suddenness and scale of the Soviet collapse and a perceived lack of international reaction.

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1992.

The Soviet union collapses in 1992, and the rest of the world just goes on as if nothing happened. I remember at the time I said, this is the largest empire in the history of the world. And they just collapsed. And there's nothing in any of the papers, there's nothing about this, because they had this sweet deal with the United States that you could build anything you wanted and sell it into the United States largest economy, and there were no tariffs.