Ask/Tell us about the Soviet Union!

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feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

icantfindaname posted:

Japan was in a very similar position developmentally to Russia in the early 1900s, and Russia ended up an impoverished shithole while Japan ended up a developed country.

Which country would you rather have fought in the 1940s? Russia ended up a superpower that put the first man into space, while Japan up until the 1970s or so wasn't nearly as high tech as it is today.

There's much more to their respective economic positions 80 years on than Stalin, is what I'm saying.

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feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

davey4283 posted:

A good friend of mine is a Soviet born Estonian and she hates Russians with unmatched fervor.

Like she spends her free time fantasizing about the genocide of their people.

Does she live in Estonia, or is she an ex-pat? Ex-pats anywhere sometimes have a tendency to be kind of super nationalist in my experience compared to people back home.

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