Comment on Were people happier in the past?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agoNo, I think the 1990s were genuinely good. That was after the Cold War but before 9/11.
(For context, I was born in the 1990s, so don’t have many personal memories of them and didn’t know anything about geopolitics then.)
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Note this experience is specific to the US and Western Europe. A great deal of relief and prosperity. Things get more complicated for the former Soviet centered world as they tried to navigate the new situation
Putin came to power basically because post soviet Russia failed to reach the sort of prosperity they hoped for.