opposide [none/use name] to the_dunk_tank • 4 years agoIt feels like every day I have to remind these dumb fucks that people who lived in the USSR actually regret its collapse and voted for its preservationimagemessage-square103 fedilinkarrow-up1150file-text
arrow-up1150imageIt feels like every day I have to remind these dumb fucks that people who lived in the USSR actually regret its collapse and voted for its preservationopposide [none/use name] to the_dunk_tank • 4 years agomessage-square103 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareREallyN [she/her,they/them]hexbear5·4 years agoI mean...by all accounts most people at the time voted to keep it, granted on the promise of some changes/reforms, right? link
minus-squareopposide [none/use name]hexagonhexbear8·4 years ago77% voted to keep the USSR, 8 western republics protested the vote link
minus-squareREallyN [she/her,they/them]hexbear3·4 years ago 8 western republics protested the vote that seems like...alot. how many republics were there? link
minus-squaressjmarx [he/him]hexbear8·edit-24 years agoHere is an infographic with the relevant numbers. IMO the republics who felt that membership in the USSR wasn't serving them should have been allowed to split off, but the dissolution of the Union was never intended by anyone involved in it to be a democratic process. link
minus-squarezifnab25 [he/him, any]hexbear6·4 years agoStalin and Lenin are still considered Founding Fathers. At least as popular in the public imagination as FDR or Lincoln. link
I mean...by all accounts most people at the time voted to keep it, granted on the promise of some changes/reforms, right?
77% voted to keep the USSR, 8 western republics protested the vote
that seems like...alot.
how many republics were there?
Here is an infographic with the relevant numbers.
IMO the republics who felt that membership in the USSR wasn't serving them should have been allowed to split off, but the dissolution of the Union was never intended by anyone involved in it to be a democratic process.
Stalin and Lenin are still considered Founding Fathers. At least as popular in the public imagination as FDR or Lincoln.