• FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It just liberalized. USSR stands for Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and they're just as infested with megacorps as the rest of the still-habitable parts of the planet

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Yes of course, but what i was referring to was this line in the game about how a liberal socdem 'USSR' still manages to be better than the U.S.

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        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          And in CP2077 Yurop all citizens are legally entitled to real vegetables in their diet. Murikans get kibble and high-protein bacterial colonies.

        • Ananasova [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          yes!

          Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) = Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР)

          Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (USSR) = Союз Суверенных Советских Республик (СССР)

          • iridaniotter [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            It's funny because the SSRs already had the legal right to secede lol. Why change the name?

            • Ananasova [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              The idea of "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" is taken from real life. It was an attempt to reform Soviet Union into less centralized federal system. They wanted to give it a new name but also save acronym (USSR/СССР). This replacement never happened because of August Coup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty).

      • lurkerlady [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I remember reading a chip about how the USSR would implant criminal's brains inside of bulldozers and stuff and use them for construction gayroller-2000

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        :yea: however, atleast in the game its shown that USSR has better living standards than US like free healthcare, education and shit. In game version of the U.S. is basically ancapistan (not that different from real life ig)

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Strictly speaking Pondsmith wrote it as if Gorbachev's plan had worked out like Deng's instead of leading to liberal/fascist coups dissolving the USSR. He's got some absolutely galaxy brained takes and ideas but as far as libs go he's weirdly endearing.

    • Ananasova [she/her]
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      1 year ago

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      they replaced USSR with Ukraine ("між Польщею та Україною")

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Ukraine getting their own special version with completely different lore is really funny and also a little sad when you think about it too much.