I have a discussion REQUEST: Truth about past "Governments" that failed.

[Sourdough]

Looking for short (Bullet Point) overview reports of conditions when past governments have failed, might have been economic collapse, bankrupt, currency worthless etc..

Thinking USSR or Argentina, maybe Venezuela, etc..

Really looking for accurate information (like reports by IMF of effect on people who lived there). Not looking for wild-*** guesses. If you actually lived through a collapse, would love to hear your experience, I you have "hearsay" or secondhand information, it is close to unless information. This thread is only about the people's experience, not about political cause or effect.

Please name other countries that failed in the last 100 years......But not failed because they lost a war.

 

[Neb]

Looking for short (Bullet Point) overview reports of conditions when past governments have failed, might have been economic collapse, bankrupt, currency worthless etc..

Thinking USSR or Argentina, maybe Venezuela, etc..

Really looking for accurate information (like reports by IMF of effect on people who lived there). Not looking for wild-*** guesses. If you actually lived through a collapse, would love to hear your experience, I you have "hearsay" or secondhand information, it is close to unless information. This thread is only about the people's experience, not about political cause or effect.

Please name other countries that failed in the last 100 years......But not failed because they lost a war.

Panama?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama

Ben

 

[SoJer]

...If you actually lived through ..collapse, would love to hear your experience...

First / Second Marriages count? jk

Missing @Rebecca (wow, she doesn't even 'pop up as an Option', anymore.. - She had some crazy 'BTDT' accounts from SA... Unarguably a "failed state"..

Sorry, don't know anybody from Zimbabwe either..

jd

 

[montanabill]

Would a internal military coup d'état be part of your data base? Seems like that happens often enough.
The victor gets to write the history so yes it would almost take a first person account to get the real story......and that would be one persons story.
A friend has done some deep dives on the history of the civil war and the "indian" wars just after the civil war. He reads all the published mainstream data but considers it a score if he can find original diary's and first person letters and such.

 

[Sourdough]

We on this and other forums invest a lot of discussion is America going to have economic collapse, or catastrophic depression, or other massive nationwide civil "HELL".

If we don't have a few accurate historical accounts, we could easily be expecting something different. For example, the collapse of USSR, never seemed like a great hardship. Seemed like the people emerged far-far-far better off.

 

[Sourdough]

Would a internal military coup d'état be part of your data base? Seems like that happens often enough.

My interest is "how" did the collapse of a government directly affect the civilian population...??? Did it necessarily "SUCK" or slowly improve quality of life, maybe it rapidly high speed improved the quality of life for the civilian population.

I am guessing the collapse of USSR and its rebirth as Russia would be the most relevant.

 

[Neb]

We on this and other forums invest a lot of discussion is America going to have economic collapse, or catastrophic depression, or other massive nationwide civil "HELL".

If we don't have a few accurate historical accounts, we could easily be expecting something different. For example, the collapse of USSR, never seemed like a great hardship. Seemed like the people emerged far-far-far better off.

In the case of the USSR the pain came before the fall. A joke from that period goes...

A fellow is standing in a bread line when he says to the guy behind him in line...

I can't take this anymore. I am going to go kill Gorbachev.

A while latter he returns and asks if he could have place in line back again. The guy still in line says...

I thought you were going to kill Gorbachev ?

He replied...

I did but that line was longer.

Ben

 

[teeceetx]

What about the Roman Empire?

Perhaps the biggest most spectacular failure in history ... also has direct parallels to the U.S. today.

 

[Canon29]

It's a mixed bag

Some places experienced collapse due to corruption such as Venezuela and hyper inflation- you could call these economic and there are several variances in cause, effect and timescale.

Others experienced collapse due to famine, disease or foreign invaders being too powerful.

In the case of Russia you can look at how policy effected the soviets or you can go furthur back to see how political philosphy shook things up from when tsar nicolas ii and his family were murdered and lenin took power, the policy differences between him and Stalin, the escalation of occurances in russia with the bolsheviks and the societal implications of a changing ideology about basic rights and wrongs and the very structure of their culture- it could be vehicles of control such as neighbors informing on each other's or extreme events such as the holodomor under the commies or the holocaust under the fascists.... in which case its not exactly a case of the government collapase but instead a case where individuals are persecuted for their beliefs/identity

Sometimes governments fail incredibly, and populations just starve such as china's "great leap forward". We saw cannibalism and civil unrest due to nothing more than poor organization, and therefore resource shortages concerning daily necessities.

In all cases, outliers survive and thrive depending on how they insulate themselves (such as basic escape) form the vulnerabilities of the masses.

It becomes pretty complicated. It's not a simple as the government collapses and **** gets harder for people overal, infact often the government collapsing makes things easier for certain groups and thise groups due to their own interests are the benefactors and immediate sponsors of the government collapse- sometimes the groups that benefit are criminal, some times those groups are just "end of the roaders" who are too far out into the peripherals of society to be effected.

It could be a slow decay due to overtaxatiom/regulation it could be an overdue uprising like in shri-lanka or an insurgency sponsored by foreign powers such as Rhodesia.

A survivalist should in my opinion be capable of surviving without the government, and a good survivalist should be prepared to survive in spite of the government. The methodology varies, but the general basis is self-reliance.

Every system has vulnerabilities, be it governments or individuals. The key is keeping it relevant to you. I don't think this discussion can be distilled to a few simple maxims and bundled up with a nice bow on it- its about as messy as anything human.

 

[SLADE]

We could just watch Cuba to find out.

 

[montanabill]

Great statement.
"A survivalist should in my opinion be capable of surviving without the government, and a good survivalist should be prepared to survive in spite of the government. The methodology varies, but the general basis is self-reliance."

Reminds me of Heinlein's statement against specialization.

I had a aunt long ago who watched the regime change in eastern africa and another friend who visited russia soon after things opened up...
I guess in my mind the cartels, mafia and gangs can be a major factor... When folks have to have a body guard at all times ...the times they are changing.

Where has there been as rich a country as the usa that has gone from wretched excess to what?
I am trying to get my head around the "or what".

 

[Neb]

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Where has there been as rich a country as the usa that has gone from wretched excess to what?
I am trying to get my head around the "or what".

Rome Babylon Great Britain...

Ben

 

[montanabill]

Rome Babylon Great Britain...

Ben

I guess wretched excess is a term that is hard to define.... I hear the average person in GB lives at a level of Mississippi, no offence to Mississippi. I see so many "poor" people here in the usa that live in a single family dwelling or single family apartment and lots of heat and cooling and many times their own car or cars.....

 

[Sourdough]

What about the Roman Empire?

I am interested in what I should expect. So, try to keep it to the last 100 years, and the impact on the middle and lower income class.

 

[Sourdough]

I guess in my mind the cartels, mafia and gangs can be a major factor... When folks have to have a body guard at all times ...the times they are changing.

OK.......that is very relevant to what I am looking for.

 

[Sourdough]

In Alaska in the 80's we had 76% of the banks, credit unions, savings & loan companies go bankrupt.

It started early 80's ended early to mid 90's. Homes that were new and had sold for $164,000.00 were foreclosed and resold for $10,000.00 to $12,500.00 "EACH".

FDIC moved my company bank accounts three different times in the 80's.