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"They're apparently an amazing intelligence partner, who has committed more acts of espionage against the US than any country besides the Soviet Union. Stealing nuclear weapon technology, co opting US politicians and policy, Epstein's island isn't demonstrably a Mossad operation but every single pers"
"I just think that evidence of an alternative system of existence might put some fear into the hearts of our current round of oligarchs. Maybe labour protections would be better? But what I can imagine, vividly, is a world in which the USSR makes it to the 21st century with a hefty GDP."
"It seemed like everyone hated Russia because they used to be the Soviet Union."
"The soviet union got this right and they sent people to space. The west is getting this wrong and we get culture war and tech bro nonsense"
"Then he decides to invade Russia which leads to 90% of German casualties in the entire war and all the land to the east of Germany he accumulated gets blitzed within the space of three or four years by Soviet forces."
"During the Cold War the Soviet Union served as a sort of counter weight to western society. The western powers that be not only had to beat the Soviet Union on an international scale but also convince its citizens that capitalism was the superior system."
"All this anarchy of the market is making me suicidal"
"Comparing it to the USSR implies you will have an apartment for life, a job for life, healthcare, and a state to sell off. Let's set sights a little more realistically... A thousand identities, a limp dick bureaucracy, Kardashian aesthetics, and a romance for a rich opulent past of plenty."
"I come from the Romanian minority in Ukraine, my family had lived in the Ukrainian and Moldovan Soviet republics, I grew up in Moldova, but also lived in other countries and I just want to say that I find the romanticization of the Soviet Union absolutely appalling."
"Preliminary categories: Movie featuring a socialite or reality tv star, movie featuring a model turned actress, movie with a less than 3 lb rating, movie with a less than 2 lb rating, movie starring Karen Black, movie starring Barbara Steele, movie with an actor before they were famous, movie from t"
"Literally on almost any corner I could go into a canteen (a holdover from Soviet factories that made sure everyone could eat well on a budget) and would be able to get myself good quality, basic (but tasty) dishes"
"Even ones who proclaim to despise capitalism and corporate control of every institution will never go as far as accepting that the Soviet Union or Cuba did something right or noble. These countries were dragged into the 20th century by the communists despite western opposition."
"Bollywood actors in the mid/late 20th century visiting fans in Soviet Union countries where their films were the highest grossing foreign films in it's history."
"It did collapse because the elites lost their belief in communist project. For ordinary people It was a functioning, normal society"
"I grew to find Anna and Dasha to be incredibly relatable because like me they grew up their whole lives in America but from parents who immigrated from the former USSR. I attribute a lot of similar viewpoints between Dasha and Anna and me to the fact that we had similar upbringings. I wish there was"
"The Soviet Union collapsed three decades ago. The 'North Atlantic' region is an anachronism -- a complete joke. They are dabbing on our collective historical illiteracy."
"Now, I get that the Soviet Union was relatively unindustrialized compared to Germany and was very paranoid due to how the West meddled and arguably prolonged the Russian Civil War, and so felt that it was best to strike a deal with Germany in the interwar period so that it can leapfrog in developmen"
"The exaggerated example is the Soviet Union: in 1950 there were 77 men per 100 women. Today, Russia still has only 87 men per 100 women, but it's an oddity compared to other European countries and is probably more related to male alcoholism."
"He cut himself in a hotel room in the soviet union because he was rejected citizenship."
"The exaggerated example is the Soviet Union: in 1950 there were 77 men per 100 women"