I know the great depression is taught largely as an American thing but the world economy was so connected even at that point where a lot of cities and countries across the globe were having severe issues.
Look at how they mention the Holodomor for instance, it makes a lot more sense even to the most ardent of chuds why they were having such struggles when you contextualize it as occuring at the same exact time as the great depression. Even in the relatively still rich for the time US, food was scarce and people were starving.
When you know the actual context of the era and realize that the Soviet famines while particularly severe were in a period when even the non famine nations were massively struggling with food, it's a lot harder to see them as just being evil people purposely engineering death.
Not even Europe, just Western Europe. Eastern Europe had the largest drop in living standards in human history between 1985 and 2001.
:maybe-later-honey: "Uhhhh, I think you mean they got FREEDOM from the EVIL COMMIES, so it was a great time for them too!"
:maybe-later-kiddo: this one I saw the tiktok it came from, the other one I have no idea
some turbo lib who made a tiktok explaining the russia-ukraine thing in the context of ukraine being a bratty bottom in a relationship with a toxic dom (russia)
The best period might be 1945-1985 when most of the colonized countries got liberated and the USSR was popping but that’s just me.
This is just the summation of conservative ideology. Poisoned by the nostalgic belief that society was better in the past, but actually you were just 12 and didn't have to go to work or pay bills.
Candidate for "worst period in history:" c.1613
Candidate for "best period in history:" c.2016
The case for 1) White people were invented
The case for 2) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice TM released in theaters, Dallas police shooting
1929-1945 is to be fair probably the worst time in human history
I think I just confused the triangle trade and colonisation of Africa into one event
we did yeah which is kind of weird to think about. Also it's a little weird to brag about ending slavery when we also did the slavery in the first place
Hungarian dog threw in the Holocaust as an afterthought when his grandparents were the ones perpetuating it
im sure the fall of communism was super cool if you werent in a country where life expectancy tanked because of it.
Old women freezing to death and people dying of alcoholism or blinding themselves from methyl alcohol in the tainted free market vodka? I sleep.
Stalin using his giant spoon to eat all the grain? I wake.
im sure the fall of communism was super cool if you werent in a country where life expectancy tanked because of it.
the funny part is this isn't even true, even capitalist countries (excepting the super rich) benefit from communism in rival countries
It may have taken a century of brutal imperialism and war, but for those 16 years, we made so much value for our shareholders
"Stalinist purges and Holodomor" listed before both WW2 and the Holocaust
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1260-1324
what do you have against checks notes Hedwig of Holstein?
best period in history was when we were all unga bunga before learning to write so i wouldnt have to deal with the psychological hazards of civilization
the funny part is even if this moron only cares about mayo history then he's still wrong
The decline started in 1970. The best years of history for whites were 1960s. This is when all socioeconomic indicators of wealth, comfort, low stress etc were at their peak
He's only saying 1985 because that's when he grew up or watched media from.
