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0 pointsgolergka8y ago0 comments

> no doubt caused by decades of anti-socialism propaganda and indoctrination

Dude, I live and Moscow. My whole family survived 70 years of communism. I seen first hand how capitalism and free markets raised us from hunger and poverty to first world country living standards.

Please, don't make assumptions about people on the internet, you may end up completely wrong.

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KozmoNau78y ago· 1 in thread

In that case you should also have noticed the crushing poverty "enjoyed" by many Russians, while the über-capitalist oligarchs live in outrageous luxury.

If you think the majority of people in Russia enjoy a first world standard of living, you're sorely mistaken. Moscow is very much an outlier.

golergkaOP8y ago

> In that case you should also have noticed the crushing poverty "enjoyed" by many Russians

Compared to Soviet Union, modern Russia is light years ahead. Of course, all this progress is built on the foundation laid down in the 90s, and is slowly deteriorating away for the last 10 years.

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