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US Politics 20w
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was bad
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Anonymous 20w

They took a collapsing, old backwater monarchy and transformed it into one of only two superpowers in world history

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Anonymous 20w

Good in some aspects, bad in some aspects. Led to a massive increase in quality of life overall, especially for Russia and the central Asian states. But that occurred after Stalin’s government had done a ton of awful shit. Lots of scientific progress, but with tons of government repression, especially around the satellite states.

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Anonymous 20w

Tankies love pretending that people were actually happy living under a totalitarian regime that demanded total loyalty to the state, authoritarianism is bad

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

“Tankies” in the big 26 🥀

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Anonymous 20w

Bro it doesn’t take a genius to see that living under a repressive regime is not going to be good for your mental health, the soviets may not have been as bad as propaganda made them out to be but they definitely weren’t the bastion of liberty some like to pretend they were

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Anonymous 20w

Without a doubt, just because we have marginally more ideological liberty in the US doesn’t mean we aren’t beholden to the state. It’s downright considered treasonous to question the status quo here, no matter how bad things get

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

There’s a reason that Russia and many of the central Asian states look back at the Soviet days fondly, while the Baltics and buffer states are very glad to no longer be under Russia’s thumb

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

Like if you’re Kazakh and the Soviets brought literacy and infrastructure and a massively increased quality of life, you’re probably gonna be pretty pro-Soviet. Meanwhile if you were Estonian and you had an independent democracy before Soviet invasion and a ton of your people got killed and then you were essentially colonized, probably not gonna be a Soviet fan.

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