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But it wasn’t lack of interest, some collectives continued fighting in the 90s (I’m talking collective farms and strikes), and not just because of infernal conditions of 90s, but over the concept of privatization as such. The destruction was performed from the top, at first bumblingly unleashing private forces and then doing jack shit to kill them. At more involved level you can say intelligentsia did it for treats, but that’s not lead poisoning but lack of cultural revolution/second purges/integration into work force
There was that itty bitty 2008 crash, which was worse than dotcom on real economy, and then shit with healtcare getting worse, cause boomers are attached to the state, while rest of people isn’t.
Was pink tide also lead poisoning? Or black panthers? (You might have a point about amerikan adventurists like bla, i can make up 50 plans more plausible than whatever the fuck they were doing)
I do think environmental factors play underappreciated role in history, but those are bad harvests forcing mass migrations (see from pov of people “invading” rome), either by climate change or pest arrival, pandemics, solar/ice ages interplay, but those psychological stories of ooh everybody was drunk all the time in medieval era, or they all got lead poisoned into stupor are convenient individualism back door of history. Its easier to believe that american cruelty, optimism and lack of memory is something environmental rather than superstructural society producing same people over and over
I'm not claiming lead poisoning is the sole determining factor, I'm claiming it's a major factor, millions of Soviets were lead poisoned, which means unfortunately like their American counterparts they had severe deficiencies in reasoning, memory retention, emotion regulation, mood regulation, impulse control, empathy, compromised hand-eye coordination, damage to the blood-brain barrier (which is a monstrous condition all on its own) and that's just the brain
So yes behind so many movements, events, people and historical outcomes of the late 20th century, lead is the silent killer, the feather that tipped the scales in the favor of reaction over and over again, because billions literally suffered from it
Well for one they didn’t have that many cars, for two - party functionaries (or student dipshits) compared to say tractor drivers are least likely to be exposed, yet it seemed they worked very diligently to get their own candle making factory, while people just wanted them to chill with alcohol ban and adjust the production priorities somewhat
Soviet lead exposure came from food and proximity to lead mining operations and munition factories (which were unfortunately everywhere)
The party functionaries ate lead (from childhood onward), as did a majority of the population