Скачать или смотреть The USSR’s Oil Addiction: How the Soviet Economy Rode — and Crashed — on Crude

Behind the red banners and five-year plans was something far more volatile: oil.

This documentary exposes how the Soviet Union became quietly dependent on crude exports to survive. At its peak, oil accounted for up to 70% of hard currency income, propping up an inefficient, stagnating economy.

But when oil prices crashed in the 1980s, so did the USSR’s ability to import food, repay debt, and keep the illusion alive. With chilling anecdotes from Western Siberia, leaked CIA reports, and a collapse in output by 40%, this is the untold story of how the world’s largest planned economy hid its true addiction — and paid the price.

The Soviet Union didn’t fall because of ideology. It fell because oil ran dry.

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