• Stalins_Spoon
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    3 years ago

    “I’ve seen people claim it will boost the economy greatly. It’ll trickle down guys! We’ll see what happens really. The Mujahideen gets new weapons though. Wonder if that’ll backfire.”

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      3 years ago

      I mean, it worked in short-term, didn’t it? It created massive economic problems in USSR and did a lot of damage in the trust the population had in the Soviet leadership.