Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Just this morning, I was looking at a tv screen when it was announced a new study had concluded nearly 68% of russians still lament the disband of the soviet union.

Propaganda as it is, even if we cut those numbers by two thirds, it’s still too many people longing by one of the most brutal totalitarian regimes that has ever existed.

As a side note: I worked for some time with a company that imported machinery from Ukraine and Belarus, in the 2000’s, and I saw the amount of graffiti with USSR simbology that was plastered on the crates. Some people don’t allow it to just shrivel and die silently.

This isn’t to say the USSR did not created good things.

I worked with a fellow from Romania and he was appalled with how bad by comparison my country’s public health care system was.

But the numbers tally a grimm story of the USSR and the wrongs vastly outnumber the rights.

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