• moffintosh
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    1 year ago

    Why is it so hard to differentiate between the USSR and the RF?

    • Shrike502
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      1 year ago

      A good chunk of the issues currently plaguing RF (with the majority of them being caused by capitalism, obviously) are blamed on “Sovok legacy”, Soviet bureaucrats in the government and similar nonsense. It’s actually quite useful as far as propaganda goes

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      1 year ago

      Because blurring the distinction facilitates leveraging decades of propaganda that’s ingrained in older generations.