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⚠️⚠️⚠️IRONIC⚠️⚠️⚠️

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And yet Hard Times created Vladimir “why nobody wants to be friends with me after I tried so hard to please them” Putin.
The meme is clearly wrong if you had just advanced one more block of history.
- buddy the title is literally
  ⚠️⚠️⚠️IRONIC⚠️⚠️⚠️
- You just need some photo of Yeltsin and Putin in the last panel along with the flag switch
I've never understood this phrase because if it's true then it's literally impossible to deviate from the pattern, idk what they're trying to say/what they're complaining about.
- Explains why liberals love quoting it so much, it treats history as predetermined based on some kind of vague "cycle"
Looking at those three, maybe there is something to an aesthetic analysis of history
Looking at how they did things, they all suck 🤷
- You think the people that raised standards of living, ended famine and raised life expectancy from the mid 30s up to 65+ and brought their country to being number 2 world superpower in under 40 years while simultaneously eliminating unemployment, providing free healthcare and eliminating homelessness suck?
  Are you out of your fucking mind? This opinion is not based in reality, it is propaganda-brained.
  You are not immune to propaganda.
  
  I'm not saying I am immune to propaganda, yet there are 2 sides on that coin. Censorship I already mentioned, then we have repressions, basically encouraging ppl to accuse each other, etc.
  Eliminating unemployment and homelessness was also somewhat questionable, AFAIK: after finishing a uni, the future workers were forcibly sent somewhere to work for X (3, I guess?) yrs with dorms as accommodation to live with Y else ppl in the same room (so, a glorified homeless shelter). Now imagine that somewhere in Siberia. Although, yeah, better than nothing, I guess. On a side note, zero unemployment was "official", and I personally judge their openness regarding stuff they didn't like based on the Chernobyl accident's handling.
  Free healthcare is great, no questions here. However, it wasn't pioneered by the USSR, but actually dates back to Alexander the 2nd's reforms (or even earlier).
  So, that's kinda it, a nonexclusive list of reasons why I refuse to glorify USSR
- Soviet union was significantly better than anything that was before or after
  
  Well, I like their tech, or rather that everything came with schematics ootb, but other than that... Idk, some stuff still seems too restrictive for me: all that iron curtains, needing the party's approval on stuff you can listen_to/perform/read, etc
- Why is it that the world’s inequality skyrocketed after the dissolution of the USSR? Why is it that liberals glamorize the swift period where Russia stripped its own copper and made people desperate enough to want Putin? The capitalists no longer had a threat against them. Even today, China is an industrial and financial threat, not an ideological one.
  Even if the USSR “sucked,” they were the ones encouraging revolution and decolonization, and that resulted in countries demanding a seat on the world stage. That’s not to say these countries all succeeded or even good today, but the western capitalists actually sweat when people were dissatisfied. Now? Fuck it. Just watch the marvel and eat the burger. It’s the end of history!
- Did I say capitalism doesn't suck? As far as I can tell, I, in fact, didn't. I generally like communistic and anarchistic ideas, but not the methods USSR used
- ah yes, the people who did this:
  suck just as much as the people who did this:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire
  something something dril tweet 'zero difference between good thing and bad thing' smug self satisfied reddit/stormfront user surprised more knowledgable people don't take his confidently wrong statements as indisputable truth direct from the godhead
- cringe + L + ratio
  Death to America

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