• Star Wars Enjoyer A
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    3 years ago

    over 90% of Soviet citizens voted to keep the Union before the dissolution, but liberals will still cry “but it was bad tho!! but they were oppressed tho!!”.

    I got screamed at once for telling a liberal that my Polish half-sister’s grandmother - who was a pre-teen during the second world war - prefered the Soviet Union and had been living in fear of the world since its fall, despite not being a communist and disagreeing with the Soviet government (she loved Stalin though, and had a framed picture of him in her living room).

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      3 years ago

      This is a classic case of USonians thinking they know foreign situations better than people who actually lived through it.

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      I am currently of a mind that the bad part needs to be studied, as most critiques simply wrap entire entity and history of USSR into bad package.