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by thriftwy 2y ago
For Russians, the 1990s are as coupled to territorial losses and new borders as they are to economic hardships. So tearing down these borders is a case of recovery. Other than that, molon labe.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> when Russian commandos led by Igor Girkin from FSB seized government buildings in Sloviansk DPR was already proclaimed by then, and I believe most of these comandos were on Ukrainian passports ATM. > That's the price many natio
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Babies only learn to roll their Rs when four years old, where the phoneme is present in the language. So likely no :)
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That information is 20 years out of date now, a random small town will be quite livable and often rich in culture and history. Of course it is not comfortable to live in a country if you oppose the core value of its people. Just go to Ukrai
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I remember being in France with my 18 month old daughter, who couldn't speak much at the moment¥ but for some reason picked up the French way of speaking and started parodying it. ¥ She only learned to say "yes" towards the e
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by thriftwy 2y ago
In Russia, most people put some part of the blame on the WWI winning coalition for humiliating Germany too much and then failing to keep its power in check, leading to a large, angry Germany in 1939. The lands the USSR has occupied in 1939
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I'm not a big fan of Putin, if you asked me about the downsides I won't be able to shut up for hours. However, I'm also no big fun of the state of Ukraine, but I'm quite fond of Crimea. Many Ukrainian cities as well, but
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> LPR/DPR are fiction created by Russia to mask their invasion Why does LPR/DPR militia fight the Ukrainian army then, from 2014 onwards? Because they totally do. They are among the most motivated troops. > Anything less tha
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The emphasis here is not on Putin but on the negotiations. If you refuse to negotiate, you will get killed. Even if Putin is replaced tomorrow with Mutin or Agutin, it's not like you can skip the negotiations stage. It was stupid for U
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> They are a key contributor to the European Union, a major platform for peaceful cooperation Since it excludes Russia from the day one I also care very little, and for me that's a liability not a virtue. > The only reason why an
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> when you signed a secret pact with Hitler dividing Europe, jointly invaded Poland and even held a joint military parade celebrating victory over Poland I didn't sign anything. And before that, Germany and Poland has jointly invade
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> next Chechnya In the sense that Ukrainians then get to invade Kazakhstan around 2040 on behalf of Russia, and film Tik Tok videos about how nasty of fighters they are? (This might as well happen)
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> The number of people raped by Soviet forces is estimated between 1 and 2 million, among them many well-known people, such as the wife of Helmut Kohl, raped when she was 12. No Russian would accuse their grand dad that has taken Berlin
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by thriftwy 2y ago
"We can show it again" definitely exists https://avatars.dzeninfra.ru/get-zen_doc/4600043/pub_623f227... The problem is that it does not concern Eastern Europeans in any way.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
As you can see, I am polite to you and you use that opportunity to invoke the most grave insults you can think of. Russians did indeed win World War Two as a part of victorious Allied coalition. The "raped their way to Berlin" is
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russia is a nice place to live. I've not been to Romania but I doubt I'd prefer Romania to Russia. So all the fuzz about "hell" izz mizzguided.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> popular slogans like "The masters will be back!" Ahem. WTF? As I've already said, Russians don't care and don't think in such terms. No slogans. The rest of the logorrhea invokes "не говори гоп, пока не пе
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russians genuinely do not care about Eastern Europeans. Last time I've checked, the only Eastern Europeans living in Crimea were Russians, with some Crimean Tatars and Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Ditto for the "new territories&qu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
In the century XXI there is a tendency to try and decouple reputation from performance. If there's a politically important but poor performer, that fact will be ignored and the deliberate attacks on their reputation will be discussed i
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by thriftwy 2y ago
"Some voting" is not good enough. "Signing some treaties" is also not good enough. The only way people are going to respect some arrangement is if they believe it's good for them. Russians now believe "some vot
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russians do not think that fellow Russians stuck on the other side of a newly drawn state borders are "other nations". Just as Hungarians do not consider Hungarians from Uzhgorod an other nation; ditto Serbs do not consider Serbs
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The only country in Eastern Europe in Russia-comparable situation is Hungary, and the humiliation in question is when it had lands with Hungarian people in them taken away from it in Treaty of Trianon. And as you can see it's the least
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russian people begin to realize that 1991 and the following decade was very unfair to their nation and (the current) country, and the amount of humiliation and loss during that period dwarfs the losses of Russo-Ukrainian war so far. I don&#
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> maybe Trump or other miracle move will save him Save Putin from what? By default, from now on Russia just retains the (formerly) Ukrainian lands it controls and integrates them in Russia. There's no deadline to that process, even
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The pure movement of money is interesting as long as we have economic crashes happening from time to time that we don't predict. Preferences and pricing is marketing, not purely economics.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That's only tangentially related to economics. There are no economic reasons why I prefer TBS to FPS games.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It may be probabilistic in tx matching but you can simulate every transaction precisely. Not sure I understand the latter argument.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
At this point you could just simulate complete economies on a PC. A medium sized country has 10M people doing ten transactions per day on average. Why have mathematical models when you only ever need to add and subtract.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
They had huge stadiums, though. Modern people had very little idea why you would have a stone stadium until around XX century.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
One Rhenish gulden was originally 3.8 grams of gold coin, that is 250 EUR in today's money. Not much for a year long lease but not insignificant. I knew some subsidized properties charging that that much for a room.

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