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Most of what was "Soviet" was taken from individual owners in the first place. My family fled Estonia from invading Soviets, giving up several businesses. I vis
by dlitwak 15y ago
Most of what was "Soviet" was taken from individual owners in the first place. My family fled Estonia from invading Soviets, giving up several businesses. I visited a couple years ago and 4 families now live on the plot of land that was once rightfully ours. It's part of life, deal with it, we did. The making public of private land was also theft in the first place so I guess I don't quite get your point, he rightfully bought the land according to the laws at that point in time, he doesn't deserve to go to prison.
- asciilifeform 15y agoThe USSR nationalized plenty of formerly-private land and natural resources, but it built its industrial capacity almost entirely from scratch. (At enormous human cost - which is the only way to uplift an agrarian backwater to modernity in decades instead of centuries.) The factories which were sold as scrap metal to the West for pennies on the dollar were fully public property.