• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    You really need to work on your reading comprehension. The collapse of the USSR was a bad thing for every country involved. Have you seen modern Russia?

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      7 hours ago

      Have you seen the USSR?

      The Holodomor,[a] also known as the Ukrainian famine,[8][9][b] was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

      But during his visit, Yeltsin insisted on an impromptu visit to a mid-sized Texan supermarket called Randall’s before heading to the airport. He wanted to see what the average American shopping experience looked like, without tour guides and diplomats to airbrush the experience for him — and what he found shocked him to his core.

      “When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people.” — Yeltsin’s autobiography

      On the flight home, he apparently said with his head buried in his hands, raging at the lies of Soviet propaganda and how his country was betraying the working class. An aid who was with him on that flight home reckoned it was when the last traces of Bolshevism left him.

      https://readmedium.com/how-a-texas-supermarket-helped-defeat-communism-953543403aa9

      Sounds fuckin amazing m8

      They should show this to you kids still in school, this is a miracle of production, the humble supermarket, you don’t think twice about it, but in the USSR this was considered incredible

      Have you seen modern Russia?

      Yeah I seen it, I seen it trying to take back Ukraine real hard and Ukraine telling the USSR to fuck right off we don’t want your shitty little union, it sucked enough the first time around (see Holodomor)