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    16 hours ago

    If you support Ukraine, then you surely support the USSR, under which Ukraine attained the best living standards it has ever had, and after which Ukrainian quality of life plummeted and millions died and fled the country as it became the poorest in Europe?

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        I’m aware they’re different countries, I’m just asking whether they support the project that gave Ukraine the best living conditions seen in the history of the region.

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            People have become very concerned with the lives of Ukrainians for the past 4 years, logically so. It’s worth it to remember the system that enabled the best living conditions in the history of Ukraine, I hope Ukraine goes back to a similar system

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              Do you think Ukrainians are in danger now because they don’t have a communist government? Or is it central control from Moscow that was the key to Ukrainian happiness?

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                Do you think Ukrainians are in danger now because they don’t have a communist government?

                I don’t just think so, I showed you the evidence of population collapse in Ukraine after 1990 due to impoverishment, lack of jobs, shortages, inflation, drug abuse, alcoholism, petty and organized crime, lack of healthcare and suicide. Ukrainians have been in danger for 35 years as a consequence of western intervention, you only know about the last 4 years because it’s suddenly those evil Russians hurting Ukrainians.

                Or is it central control from Moscow that was the key to Ukrainian happiness?

                You’re mistaken about that. Ukraine was its own republic with its own political representation, its own official language, its own industry, its own peasant collectives, and both Khruschyov and Brezhnev were of Ukrainian origin.

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                  Glad we’re on the same page of getting the evil russians out of Ukraine so they can get back to being an autonomous region.

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                    Sad to see you don’t give an actual fuck about Ukrainians and their lives and you use them exclusively as a rhetorical tool against Russia.