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After the USSR collapsed, Ukraine possessed an inefficient and militarised industrial base and a blundering bureaucracy.
The denouement came in 1991, the same year Soviet socialism collapsed.
Although the whole world has suffered severely from the crisis, Ukraine was hit worse than most countries, as international demand for steel, which accounted for 42% of exports in the first half of 2008, collapsed.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, it was hard enough for the Kremlin to lose Ukraine – the empire’s former industrial heartland and breadbasket – to a moderately democratic (by Russian standards), independent government.
A massive liquidity injection by the government ensured that no major bank collapsed, and minor bank failures were administered in a surprisingly orderly fashion.
In Ireland, Spain, and even Portugal, exports grew strongly when the domestic economy collapsed and wages adjusted.
In Ireland and Spain, private savings collapsed, and a housing bubble fueled excessive consumption, while in Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, and Italy, it was excessive fiscal deficits that exacerbated external imbalances.
Bubbles in Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States collapsed after the financial crisis that erupted in 2008.
In 2013, the US Federal Reserve began to roll back its bond-buying program, and commodity prices collapsed in mid-2014.
The budget deficit continued to widen as the economy collapsed.
But, as Carson’s campaign has collapsed under the weight of his obliviousness to policy, Cruz has emerged as the greatest threat to Trump in the early contests.
This, in turn, could produce a repeat of the scenario that brought Hamas to power in Gaza in June 2007, when all Fatah authority in the area collapsed after the Israeli withdrawal.
The Bosman ruling, named after a Belgian player who successfully challenged the rule’s application to players from other European Union countries, eroded the limit, which collapsed altogether under the onslaught of the richest European clubs’ demand for a free hand in hiring the best players, wherever they might be found.
The attempt to reconstitute the pre-World War I model of globalization collapsed in 1931, when domestic politics forced the British government to choose domestic reflation over the gold standard.
The Bretton Woods regime collapsed in the 1970’s as a result of the inability or unwillingness – it is not entirely clear which – of leading governments to manage the growing tide of capital flows.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Kremlin lost not only control of vast portions of territory, but also half of the USSR’s nearly 300 million people.
Many industries collapsed, owing to neglect, lack of international partners, and financial chaos.
When the communist regimes collapsed in 1989, the communist parties of Poland and Hungary transformed themselves into credible democratic-left parties that became formidable opponents of the newly emerging political right.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the end of reliable trade and financial backing threw the Cuban economy into a severe recession, which abated only after the government relaxed some restrictions on private enterprise.
The dispute with Macedonia goes back to the early 1990’s, when Yugoslavia collapsed into independent states.
In other words, Russia is being allowed to re-assert its “sphere of influence” – a concept that should have been superceded by that of “Europe Whole and Free,” which the entire European Union appeared to have embraced when communism collapsed.
With the tottering tower of communist totalitarianism collapsed, the Iron Curtain's fall revealed the actual contours of the world as well as the depth of its challenge.
After the Nationalist government collapsed in 1949, Mao’s “New China” emerged.
Of course, as soon as the negotiations collapsed two weeks ago, the truth about the Greek debt began to be stated.
The fact that the Greek debt overhang was acknowledged only after negotiations had collapsed exposes the deep systemic failures that have brought Greece and Europe to this point.
Seventy years ago, he delivered his celebrated call to resistance over the BBC after flying to London from France as it collapsed in June 1940.
As a result, the system as a whole is not yet much safer than it was in September 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, the system served as a strategic means for integrating former communist countries into the international capitalist economy.
At the end of 1997, the second Klaus government collapsed under the weight of financial scandals.
When the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates collapsed in the early 1970’s, some thought that the dollar’s importance as an international reserve currency would wane.
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