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The Soviet Union fell because of the ossified leadership's increased lack of a knack for storytelling, and the Soviet people became enamoured by stories from the West. Of course they would come to regret that choice after the Union was dissolved and Harry Potter was eventually published…
Stalin was great at getting the whole Soviet Union to sit around a large fireplace while he smokes from his pipe in a rocking chair and tells a good story. Gorbachev was absolutely terrible at it, his stories don't pass the Bechdel test and all his self insert characters are Mary Sues.