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