“Surely THIS round of neoliberal shock therapy will propel us to greatness” I say as I remove the last of my tendons with a flensing knife. The shareholders weep with joy. I am so enviously streamlined.
having had to personally live through that shit, fuck every single one of these people
Do you even know what happened to the Baltics under the USSR, or are you just spewing nonsense?
I’m not denying the 90s were brutal, but don’t twist that pain into “therefore the USSR was a good thing”. The collapse being a shock doesn’t erase what the occupation did to us, the Baltic states, or what people lived through under repression.
The USSR was objectively a good thing and you’re free to return to 90% illiteracy and a 40-something life expectancy if you feel otherwise
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russia on both life expectancy (which was already on par with a rapid global and regional improvement trend)
An insanely, blatantly wrong thing to say about a feudal serf-state
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Political realities of the time
Those political realities wouldn’t happen to involve a bunch of Baltic governments enthusiastically collaborating with the Nazis and participating in the Holocaust, now would they? Because that would be a truly wild thing to just yada-yada.
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Double genocide theory is bullshit, it’s a form of Holocaust trivialization, and it came from—guess where—the Baltics, presumably from Baltic fascists to deflect from their own crimes.
The theory first gained popularity in Lithuania after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, particularly in discussions about the Holocaust in Lithuania.
“Ah well you see the nazis were bad, but stopping them was equally bad”
WiseManBowedHead.dril
Anything’s possible when you make shit up kiddo
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Try nonfiction
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Yeah I do fucko, I had to live through it. Get fucked.
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No, it showed how important fossil fuels, especially oil, were in the 20th century.
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No. You need lots of energy/electricity to economically grow and the US has fossil fuels in abundance,
especially coal, but it’s very high in the other two sectors as well.
Despite that, the Soviet Union managed to grow much faster with much less, same with China.
But the Soviet Union doesn’t have much coal and natural gas didn’t become big and cheap
until the turn of the millennium.
And coal has been very important in the 20th century as that provides cheap electricity, while oil mainly provides cheap transportation. The problem with oil is that it’s also easy to transport itself, so as a country like Saudi Arabia which has no coal and only oil, there’s a large chance that it will get stolen from any countries with massive coal deposits and even a larger chance for the oil to be sold by a tiny group of elites of that country to countries with massive coal deposits.The US, despite its absolutely massive fossil fuel deposits compared to the rest of the world,
started to falter in the early 1970s as they had an internal oil peak, crashing their economy.
The Soviet Union was thriving, but still had a long way to catch up as it had been a monarchy up until the early 20th century,
plus setbacks from invasions by Germany who put all their weight on the Soviet Union and still lost.
The US then blackmailed Saudi Arabia just in time and was able to prop up their system and even thrive
by forcing Saudi Arabia to invest into the US or be invaded. It allowed the US to go into massive debts without worry.
The same happened to other oil producing nations.It’s the US whose underlying institutional failures are showing right now.
China has risen in the 20th century because it’s expensive coal became cheap enough over time, as all the cheaper coal had been used up. Russia managed to regain some of its power with natural gas.But since the early 2020s solar power has become the energy/electricity rising star and solar power is far more evenly distributed than fossil fuels.
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