Learning from the Soviet Collapse – Lessons from CCP Documentaries on the Fall

Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party has become preoccupied with the Soviet Union's collapse, screening a 2022 documentary titled 'Historical Nihilism and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union' to CPC cadres. The Party views foreign forces as weaponizing historical narratives to undermine CPC rule, while simultaneously drawing inspiration from the Soviet Union's 1917 rise as the CPC seeks global influence.