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.
I wonder how much of this is because of what it has turned into, a kleptocracy.
I have worked with people from all over the world. I ask people from outside the U.S. if America is better or worse than where they are from. The most common answer is “It’s just different”. Some Asian people say that life is harder in the U.S. and they feel like they are a slave to their jobs here. Life was more laid back and filled with less pressure than where they are from. A Russian guy I worked with says that Putin will not be content until Russia reclaims everything they lost after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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Breaking: My family who lived in the soviet union til it’s collapse think it was bad, particularly my two great grandfathers who were killed because they didn’t like the idea of deportation to the central asian steppes.
Why did the Kremlin want to deport them?
They were ethnic Germans living along the Volga River and in Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. The vast majority of ethnic Germans living in the Soviet Union were packed onto stock cars and were sent to Central Asia or Siberia in 1941/2 after the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union.
Yes the deportations of ethnic Germans was a mistake. The collapse of the USSR is still responsible for the largest drop in standard of living throughout history.
When battered wives flee to the women’s shelters, they suffer large drops in their standard of living too. Sometimes it’s necessary for better to occur. Sometimes the “better” never occurs.
So you think that the deportations were reprisals or collective punishments against Germans for the Axis invasion?
