[RedMonqey]

You’d think if the KGB was that far-sighted they would have foreseen the collapse of their system.

When one's sole reason for existence depends upon an (even false) belief system, a certain level of personal and institutional blindness can occur.

Governments, religion and cults all depend on their adherents sticking to their belief systems unto the bitter end.

From adherent of the Third Reich in the bunker in Berlin believing in imaginary Army Groups coming to the rescue to battered wives who believe the husband won't slip and beat her to an inch of her life again, to cults like the Jim Jones suicide cult in Guinea, all believe their own lies even when the evidence a normal person would recognize points to the contrary.

Communist were no different in this regard.

[Reily]

Agreed!