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[–] Tiltinyall 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What was so illegal? Possibly the millions of USSR citizens taking the first flight or ride out of the Soviet bloc when it became available. Very illegal for the proletariat I'm sure.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The majority of Soviet citizens wished to retain Socialism, a fact that continued after the dissolution. The people fleeing newly established Capitalism was due to dissolved safety nets. 7 million people died due to "Shock Therapy."

[–] Tiltinyall 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is an outright lie, you might as well be saying Putin is a fairly elected leader too.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which part is a lie? Soviet Nostalgia is well-documented.

Putin is a shithead, but he is popular within Russia. His opposition has not been able to beat him, though the Communist Party has some support as well.

[–] Tiltinyall 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And you treat nostalgia as FACT? Sad, you were never there.

The culture of the people that escaped have an antidote for that fallacy

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[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the coup where Yeltsin ordered the military to fire upon parliament with tanks and instituted a rule-by-decree system to dissolve the government

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

seems pretty illegal to me

[–] Tiltinyall 1 points 2 months ago

Not an event from the year 1991 though, so still nothing to do with the fall of the Soviet Union.