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God I wish we could go back and do 1991 again. Unfortunately time travel is impossible so I need to stop ruminating on it.

• mnky9800n 3y ago
  1999 my friend. That's when Boris Yeltsin gave up democracy to Putin. Think of the Russia that could have come from before that decision.
  • fractallyte 3y ago
    That was the Russia that invaded Chechnya and committed horrific atrocities, bordering on genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
    • mnky9800n 3y ago
      As terrible as that war was, I really don't think that compares to the changes that occurred post 1999, the freedoms that were lost, nor the casualties that are a direct responsibility of Putin.