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the fucking soviets man. Achieved multiple centuries within decades, and crashed just about as fast. Lenin’s quote about decades and weeks go both ways I suppose.
This reminds me of an elderly woman in Ukraine who came out with a Soviet flag to welcome who she thought were the Russian soldiers. Turns out they were Ukrainian soldiers, and they snatched the flag from her and taunted her. I believe she lived a normal life up until 1991, that’s when she saw most, if not, all of her children and grandchildren die due to alcoholism, crime, and/or suicide.
I feel anger and disgust whenever I see westerners gush over the drunkard Yeltsin. Of course, he’s just a blip, but he’s the catalyst to everything we see now and the fuckers who got him to that position won’t even acknowledge it. They’ve won, they’ve caused endless suffering and misery to every side and they still get angry at the results.