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> The Soviets were perhaps somewhat softer overlords on average Most Russians in the Tzarist Russian empire could go years or decades without being actively op
by bpodgursky 4y ago
> The Soviets were perhaps somewhat softer overlords on average
Most Russians in the Tzarist Russian empire could go years or decades without being actively oppressed — people out in rural villages could at least survive through benign neglect.
There was no benign neglect in the soviet union. You were a gear in the system and if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp.
- 331c8c71 4y ago> There was no benign neglect in the soviet union. You were a gear in the system and if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp. Like you would be sent to a prison camp in the 80s? Just stop... Late soviet union was pure benign neglect.
- FpUser 4y ago>"if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp." I grew up in USSR. If you take late 70s and 80s (do not know how it was before) you would have to very actively open your mouth and be a dissident if you wanted to end up in prison camp even though it did not guarantee it. I left in 91 so have no idea how it later progressed from nearly absolute freedom at that time to what Russia has now with this maniac in power.