also that gotcha always gets me bc like… we could always build nicer apartment buildings than the SSRs did
we’re a rich nation, we can afford to do that
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Anonymousmushy.the.mushroom18w
It amazes me how people think they’re immune to becoming homeless :3
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Anonymous#218w
Why are we richer than the soviets?
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Anonymous#318w
Well for one we were on good terms with most nations and had a healthy post war economy, Russia just had post wat
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Anonymous18w
Which is why their economy collapsed 45 years later?
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Anonymous#318w
After a devastating Cold War, yes
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Anonymous18w
Are we richer because of our “low” military spending?
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Anonymous#318w
I mean, ideally that military money would be put aside for exactly this. But also this hasn’t always been the case