I can't help keep remembering how 'utterly unthinkable' it was (for most folks by far) that the USSR would actually collapse. Even in the weeks before... It did.
Anyone can say 'it was obviously coming'... in hindsight... but I was an aware adult through the 1980s (30 in 1988) and the 'fall' of the USSR just wasn't a topic, certainly not in the mainstream.
@nigelharpur are you planning a similar fate for the USA?
@barnetboy as I stroke my large white cat, on the arm of my 'control chair', before polishing my monocle to perfection... do you mean?
@nigelharpur yeah Sounds good!