Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

  1. Idk where you found the 3rd one from. Ukraine had the 2nd worst GDP per capita in Europe behind Albania in 1990. Other countries within the Soviet sphere followed like Romania and Poland. Ukraine's population in 2019 was 45 million that's a 7 million decrease from the latest Soviet era population size however that's what'll happen to a country that suddenly opens up to immigration. Soviet citizens had hardly any ability or right to immigrate out of the USSR. That's the case even in puppet states like Poland and East Germany. So obviously people will leave an impoverished region fast when they have the ability to do so. Debt cannot be counted for Ukraine alone under the USSR but we know for a fact that the USSR had debt. It's just small compared to the GDP. Having said that "no debt" doesn't mean "good economy". The USSR despite having low debt collapsed due to the unsustainability of their economic system. Developed social sphere is also highly debatable since the USSR only artificially boosted their results in science and education and even then came nowhere near the West. The last three points are also asinine since the Ukrainian economy was pretty bad compared to Europe. If you want to make the point that Ukraine was highly mismanaged after the end of the USSR then I am with you. But trying to suggest that Ukraine was this amazing nation under the USSR is just a blatant lie. Was it better? Perhaps. But so was Belarus. So was Kazakhstan. Most former USSR states felt the collapse and never recovered from it. In the contrary USSR puppet states flourished after the USSR fell. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia are all doing much much better than they did anytime under the USSR. Ukrainians haven't been "held" hostage by their government. They voted and created said government. Instead of overthrowing bad leaders like Zelensky, they allow them to take full control. You can sympathize with Ukrainians all you want but they created many of their problems themselves.
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