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@nigelharpur You and nearly 80% of the 80% turnout of Soviet people who voted in a 1991 referendum to preserve it, before it was killed in a country estate backroom by three men, nine months later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum

Not to say it wasn't coming eventually, of course. Internal and external contradictions and aggression had done their toll. But it's an interesting case study, if nothing else.

https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/socialism-betrayed.pdf