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Know your genocide apologists (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The entire Eastern European bloc has been in a nosedive since the 90s.

... have you spoken to any Eastern Europeans from the former Warsaw Pact? Like, personally?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah. A number of migrants to the US fleeing the downturn.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've spoken to a few, and their opinion has been, to a man, overwhelmingly negative towards the old Soviet-supported societies. Economic and health data supports their opinion that the Warsaw Pact era was significantly worse for their countries than the modern day.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    to a man, overwhelmingly negative towards the old Soviet-supported societies

    Then you're talking to a rarefied group of people. Possibly just the circle you run in.

    I'm friends with a couple of engineers and other techies out of Poland and Belarus. They were educated out there and started their careers in the mid-90s, when the economy went into freefall. They did not consider what became of those countries an improvement, and that's before guys like Duda and Lukashenko took office.

    Admittedly, I also know a Russian guy who is absolutely ride-or-die for Putin. Loves him. Thinks he saved Russia from collapse. But he's also a big Trump guy who thinks Joe Biden is a communist, so...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This doesn't seem to square with the Orban, Duda, and Iohannis regimes, as they are all fiercely anti-democratic.

    Hell, it doesn't square with the current Italian government or with the rising tide of German fascists.

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