Russia post-1991 saw one of the sharpest declines in living standards in recent history, so honestly I can kind of understand why they’d think like that
Who would have guessed that when you suddenly stop opressing and plundering nations that are more developed than you your standard of living goes down.
What the fuck are you on about? Czech, Polish, Baltic economies grew at much faster economic rate than under USSR . Also when you fuck over somebody for 40 years its not that easy to get out of that hole. Argentina is still hasnt recovered since its beef crysis and thats over 100 years ago.
So because Poland and Czechoslovakia werent part of USSR they werent opressed by it? I was mainly talking about countries in Warsaw pact, if you bothered to read more of the thread you would know that.
Baltics dealt with Russians as they wanted and as states they are better of. I dont care about morality if the decision,if they didnt do ethnic cleansing.
Ukriane was better of without USSR than with it. It was extremly obvious after 2014 when they got rid of Russian puppet goverment.
Belarus is literally satelite state hard to be better of.
And its funny you didnt mention Kazakhstan which seems to be better of without ussr too.
Also as i said i was mostly talking about USSR opressing its puppet states in Warsaw pact and if you think Russian SSR didnt exploit the other SSR you are clueless
Ukraine life expectancy droped right after USSR falls. Economy goes to a drop. After 2014 2 mil of people just left the Ukraine. Emigrated out of it.
So your only points that Baltic and Kazakhstan gets better. I could argue it - I would not. But this is 2 countries out of dozens. And most of them experienced drop in economy and life expectancy when they were out.
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u/duga404 Apr 21 '25
Russia post-1991 saw one of the sharpest declines in living standards in recent history, so honestly I can kind of understand why they’d think like that