• M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How did they end up like this, anyhow? It’s weird to think there isn’t more animosity towards the guys who shot at their great-great-granddads or whatever.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago
      • USSR goes to shit and collapses
      • you give up your nukes
      • you allow shock doctrine into your country
      • you embrace capitalism, but you never rise up to your former soviet standards
      • your politicians blame the failures of capitalism on a country that no longer exists and ideology that is no longer a competition
      • capitalists in the west keep pushing anti communism into your country
      • communism and nazism is branded as the same thing
      • but then your politicians run out of heroes to praise now that communism evil
      • government gives surface level praise to Makhno because he fought both sides, but is also anarchist so they can’t praise him too much
      • last resort is to start praising Nazis because they wanted “Ukrainian independence”