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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

prosperity

agony-soviet

Nearly all of the post-Soviet states suffered deep and prolonged recessions after shock therapy, with poverty increasing more than tenfold. Catastrophic drops in caloric intake followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union#Consequences

Kindly, a person who was born in the absolute ass-hair dingleberry that was the USSR.

How old are you, if I may ask?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

I'm glad you brought up life expectancy. (For the lazy: terrorist russia is 111, while nearly all post-soviet europe countries are above)

How old are you, if I may ask?

You may not, commie.

Edit: commies: angry downvote

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, many of the post-socialist states are in rough shape thanks to the imperial core’s shock therapy plundering of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union#Polling_history

In 2017, another poll conducted by Pew Research Center found that 69% of Russians, 54% of Belarusians, 70% of Moldovans and 79% of Armenians claimed that the breakup of the Soviet Union was a bad thing for their country. With the exception of Estonia, the percentage of people who agreed with the statement was higher amongst people aged 35 or over. 57% of Georgians and 58% of Russians also said that Joseph Stalin played a very/mostly positive role in history.

Meanwhile in still-socialist states: