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[โ€“] bagend@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The USSR wasn't a paradise (communism isn't magic) but it was better than anything in Russia before or since. It's not like turning to capitalism in the 90s made the country a utopia.