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It was not just a territorial and population loss, Russia also "lost pretty much everything" economically during the 90s. Ordinary Russians suffered a lot as ol

It was not just a territorial and population loss, Russia also "lost pretty much everything" economically during the 90s. Ordinary Russians suffered a lot as oligarchs enriched themselves by looting the old Soviet SOEs

akhmatova 4y ago
Even in the worst of the 90s they were still categorically better than any point in their history prior to 1955 or so.
- akhmatova 4y ago
  "categorically better off than at any point", that should have read