god I want the innocence of believing the Soviet Union never fell back
I've said it before and I'll say it again; Liberals literally think Russians are ethnically communist
He was being insufferably smug while being wrong so I was forced to condescend at max power . . . forgive me just this once, sensei . . . my dude edit: I thought you meant my reply lol I didn't even catch that he said it as well
I was talking about the PS1 hagrid pedo fan club member not you honey it’s all good.
Dude - acceptable
Condescending “my dude” - :stalin-gun-1:
:meow-knife-trans: you will never tear condescending usage of "my dude" from my hands or my vocabulary :meow-shining:
Russia had 100 years to finish this "transition
It doesn't matter, even if it had 100 years the argument wouldn't fly.
Nonetheless: 1991-1922=69
69<100
Wait, hang on. Was the "100 years" a reference to the Soviet Union? Does he just not know what happened in the nineties?
(ie. western-aligned)
Not from lack of effort on Yeltsin/Putin's parts. The problem was that the only 'Western-aligned' Russia that the US would accept was one that was being strip mined for resources by Western corporations, and Putin wanted the strip mining to be done by Russian ones.
I think if nothing else, the collapse of the USSR shows us that things like party discipline and insurance of ideological commitment are not just gratuitous and bloodthirsty abuses of power.
I often think about how the guys that tried to coup Gorbachev ordered 10,000 handcuffs to be delivered to KGB offices in Moscow, mobilized the military and declared martial law, then called the whole thing off when two Yeltsin-aligned protestors died. The "military hardliners" of the late Soviet Union were too pure to order the loyalist forces to attack the pro-Yeltsin tank battalion and order the KGB to do the purge, and the USSR was dissolved two years later.
Of course we'll never know what would have happened if they did commit to the coup. It might have started Russian Civil War Part 2: This Time With Nukes.
Russia had 100 years to finish this "transition"
TRANS RUSSIA.
TRANS.
RUSSIA.
