I know things were really bad in 1989, but what made it so bad that people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments?

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    disillusionment with the government, decades of stagnation and lack of revolutionary spirit

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      That’s a very vague way to say that a planned economy going down with USA doing actual humanitarian flights with actual food doesn’t really help people to trust in any system.