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Stalin the mysagonist (lemmy.ml)

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago

I think you just made that up.

Besides, living standards and life expectancy in the former USSR are just now recovering back to levels they were at when the USSR broke up. It makes complete sense why people would look at the last 30 years and conclude things were better before.