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i grew up in the soviet union too. даже если мы согласны с тем что коммунизм не был идеальным это не значит что берёзки доказывают это. so my point still stands.


When were you born? What decade?

The most strenuous, impassioned diatribes against the Soviet system come from older people, and from the non-Russian satellite soviet states.


I was born in the 80s in Moldova. Other guy in here is much younger than me.


> коммунизм не был идеальным (communism wasn't ideal)

Understatement of the century, quite literally.


bruh. is the RF better or worse now? how are those term limits working out for you? was the west better or worse during the years 1932-33 during the famine (the same years that the US hit peak unemployment)? were the pogroms and the gulag better or worse than jim crow and segregation and racism? was state owned means of production better or worse than the gilded age?

like you're sitting here glibly dismissing something that's more nuanced than either yours or my hottake. what are you trying to accomplish?

edit: also how come you translated mine but not yours? and also why didn't you translate all the way?

>даже если мы согласны с тем что коммунизм не был идеальным это не значит что берёзки доказывают это

translation: even if we agree that communism wasn't ideal that doesn't mean beriozkas prove it.


There is a pretty simple test one can use to figure out which way to run a country is actually preferred by people:

Some countries put border with barb wires, walls, armed guards, etc. to keep people out. Other countries did that to keep people in.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...


That's not relevant to my argument. You could have pointed out to many other bad things done by the US, or the West.

The fact remains that migration flows tell us where people actually want to live.


I'd guarantee that people in the depression in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Argentina were better off than Russians up to around 50s.

Hell, Australia in the 1890s was richer than most of the world in the 1950s




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