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by artem247 5y ago
For example, “the West” could be quite pleased if Russia invades Ukraine, but at a large cost. Basically turning Ukraine into new Vietnam or Afghanistan. This “concern” does not help Ukraine in any way, it already had a cost on economy - f
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by artem247 5y ago
The blocking of ‘some’ of TV channels happened last year. Election to parliament happened almost three years ago, where actually one of the opposition parties won in a landslide. Exile happened in 2014, due to closeness to Yanukovitch, for
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by artem247 5y ago
So following your logic every country has a right to exert influence over it’s neighbors using military power. The are pro-Russian political parties in Ukraine, yet their support is low, around 10% and falling, so no hope of achieving Russi
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by artem247 5y ago
-banned ethnic Russians from position of power??? This is so laughable for anyone from Ukraine. President of Ukraine is a Russian-speaking Jew. There is no checking whether you are Ukrainian or Russian in Ukraine, most of the people are fro
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by artem247 5y ago
-banned ethnic Russians from position of power??? This is so laughable for anyone from Ukraine. President of Ukraine is a Russian-speaking Jew. There is no checking whether you are Ukrainian or Russian in Ukraine, most of the people are fro
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by artem247 5y ago
Well, first of all Roadside Picnic was actually published by the state. Then, the state funded a rather expensive Tarkovsky movie, inspired by the book ("Stalker"). I think I even had this book at parent's apartment. Plenty o
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by artem247 5y ago
Was Tarkovsky, for example, cozy with the regime? There were also a plenty of 'underground' artists, who had a day job of being a book illustrator, and did some stuff on the side, which they only would show to the close circle.
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by artem247 5y ago
>> young people were assigned jobs on finishing schooling Could you provide evidence for this?
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by artem247 5y ago
>> Stores had cigs, vodka, butter and milk and tubers (awesome!!) Where do you get it from? Of course it depended on time and place, but you can buy a lot of stuff in Kyiv (for example) in 70's and 80's. Some things were &#x
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by artem247 5y ago
>> (during Brezhnev's time, GDP went into guns and away from butter). Is there any empirical evidence supporting this? There were many improvements in the life typical citizen in the 1964-1982 era, a lot of better housing(which m
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by artem247 5y ago
I would say it is more about disillusionment with capitalism and democracy after the collapse of Soviet Union. In Ukraine for a decade after collapse the left-wing parties, such as Communists, Socialists, Agrarian party were very popular. I
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by artem247 5y ago
>> and establish a new government with literal -not metaphorical, actual- neo-nazis in power. Typical Russian lie. After the Yanukovich fled, there was a provisional government made up from people who were ALREADY in the Ukrainian par
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by artem247 5y ago
Okay, have you ever been to Ukraine? What does it mean - looted to the bone? Why do you think Ukraine is that much different to Russia? Ukraine GDP is improving from 2016 till now, even with pandemic. Some industries, like software and agri
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by artem247 5y ago
The part of Poland that was annexed during WW2 had 3 major ethnic groups there - Polish people, Ukrainians and Jews. Most of the Jews got executed during the war, Polish were sent back to Poland by Stalin. Yet culturally Western Ukraine has
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by artem247 5y ago
"Ukraine is a semi-failed state with an ongoing civil war(and was for decades)" It is a pure lie, there was no conflict in 1991-2014. What's a semi-failed state? How do you define it? "how Ukraine can pull itself from th
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by artem247 5y ago
As someone who had a clinical depression after a psychotic episode, which lasted a couple of years, I would say — it's complicated. I've actually maintained a pretty healthy schedule, with regular swimming, intense hatha-yoga (mor
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Iron Law of Wages(en.wikipedia.org)
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by artem247 5y ago
The economic reasons of collapse of Soviet Union are very popular in the West, yet to say that 1990 was the worst time for SU in purely economic terms is not true. Soviet Union was in a disastrous state in 1920's, in late 1940's a
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by artem247 5y ago
In that case that would have worked for Russia/Ukraine. That's not what happened.
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by artem247 5y ago
SU produced a lot of airplanes, both military and for civil use. If that's not an example of complicated industry, I don't know what is then. And with 'modern' capitalism in Ukraine Antonov aircraft factory is as good as
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by artem247 5y ago
Slight correction. Soviet Academy of Sciences is not an educational institution, nor it is limited to those who were born in Moscow. A lot of university students in Moscow, Kyiv, St. Petersburg or any bigger Soviet city weren't actuall
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by artem247 5y ago
Ehh, starving in 1964? Maybe not living extra lavish, but hardly starving.
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by artem247 5y ago
Speaking from ex-SU side, not sure about shows, but some 'science' related magazines had cult following. Copies of 'Eureka' were a great read in my childhood. It was a yearly book-length magazine about new technologies.
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by artem247 5y ago
I'm currently learning Flutter, I think it is not exactly 'low-code', but pretty close to what you already know, and I like it a lot so far.
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by artem247 5y ago
I would say that Russian Empire and USSR were similar in the methods of achieving their goals — a lot of rigid hierarchical structures, top-down management, a certain level of brutality. But the goals were very different.
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by artem247 5y ago
That's very unfair. The education was free for all, there was significant investment in education, 90% of schools in my rather ancient city were built during Soviet time, not before, not after. Same for university campuses and hospital
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by artem247 5y ago
>> - the same with social justice: Who else is going to require social justice advocacy other than people who are considered disgusting enough by society to be treated unjustly? Ehh, maybe there is something I'm not picking up, b
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by artem247 5y ago
I don't think that major Ukrainian cities of let's say post-Stalin era were in worse shape then comparable Russian cities of the same time. You had more 'deficit' goods in Moscow sure, I don't know if Kyiv was lacki
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by artem247 5y ago
I'm not an expert but I do not think that commercial viability was really something they were interested in. Again, flight inside USSR were pretty common, and there was a demand for those flights, but only at heavily subsidized prices
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Ukraine fits the bill, you can rent a nice apartment in downtown part of town, internet is cheap and fast, food costs something like 3 times less then US, cities are walkable, you don't really need a car. Lviv or Ivano-Frankivsk for a

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