imperial russia and other related polities as they were before and as they are after are just matryoshkas (heh) of chauvinism. there were no saints before, there are no saints now. the soviet union, as bad as it was, was your best bet on actual civilization and the fact that every single crook that sat on the kremlin and on neighbouring countries talk against it shows well what they are.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Even if it's biased you know what you're talking about. They were victors and they created a civilization. However if they were the best bet, things must have been really bad there (now wondering a background to that, I don't really know about "Rise of Moscow" parts of the history). The problem is and always was those administrative crooks.