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Russia says there's a problem with billions of rupees it has in India that need to be converted
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I guess being a global pariah has some drawbacks.
In Soviet Russia, (bad) idea execute you
FTFY
Ees same
Legit question: is Putin's Russia actually worse than Soviet in terms of the disappearing and defenestration and shit?
Putin can only dream of achieving the levels of evil Stalin did. However, life of a nonpolitical commoner may have been a little more hopeful in the old days.
When Stalin committed genocide in Ukraine, he took their grain harvest and left them to starve. When Putin commits genocide in Ukraine, he ships their children to "reeducation" camps in Russia. He wants to make them Russian. The scale is entirely different.
I just find these assholes amazing in that they would have zero peace or abillity to relax the way they escalate the shit out of creating a dystopia. Stalin was drinking so much and forcing his buddies to basically drown themselves in alcohol on the daily, like, who wins from all this?
Madness!
Putin's Russia is more gentle on its own population, but it is potentially more dangerous internationally. Soviet Union more or less abided by the rules of international order, contributed to the demise of old-world imperialism, and almost never issued nuclear threats. Putin's Russia is an outright bandit state, openly ignoring any international rules and conducting acts of terror - like the Islamic State. If not stopped now, it can start in the future a devastating world war without any remorse.
@Ulara @cheese_greater Not really sure it is true that it is more gentle on its own population as a blanket statement. That would depend on the era we are talking about. Stalin certainly was worse but Gorbachev wasn't.
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That guy had some balls, holy shit.
Yes, the Gorbachev era was a golden time of unheard of freedom and international cooperation. You could observe how people joyfully opened up to new opportunities.