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On pretty much any metric that matters life is worse for the typical Russian citizen today as compared with before the collapse of the USSR. Educational attainm
by drekk 5y ago
On pretty much any metric that matters life is worse for the typical Russian citizen today as compared with before the collapse of the USSR. Educational attainment, lifespan, gender equity, homelessness rates, nutrition
I'm not sure why people bring up that time as if it were somehow worse, turns out selling off all your public institutions to corporations at firesale prices isn't a good foundation for democracy. Many of those oligarchs that made out well became the powerbase of Putin, whom MI6 funded and supported.
The West creates its own monsters
- hlbjhblbljib 5y agoYou somehow blame the west for Putin? Other countries have managed. India has better average wages than Russia.
- gwbas1c 5y agoThe quality of life issues in the Soviet Union are well known. All you need to do is read the Wikipedia page on the fall of the Soviet Union.