• SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Liberals, conservatives, centrists, succdems (especially succdems, their frothing anti-communism know no bounds) and a large portion of socialists in the west: "Well ackshually the collapse of the eastern block was good and brought freedom and stuff to those suffering under the totalitarian boot of communism!"

    People who remembers living in AES countries before and after the regression to capitalism: "Life was better back then. Most things suck now."

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, not sure how people think living through post-Soviet society was somehow better. Mobs, social services, quality of life, jobs, income. Everything got worse unless you had capital which was unlikely

      • vccx [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Something like 6-8 million extra deaths in the year after the collapse right? A mass casualty event like its own little holocaust.

        • opposide [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          That’s not a little Holocaust, that’s literally how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust. That’s a whole Holocaust