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My uncle spoke of his time in Soviet Russia back in the day. He said there were only 2 channels on TV. He said Channel 1 was propaganda, and channel 2 was a KGB pointing a Kalashnikov at the screen saying "Turn back to channel 1!"
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Now Russia propaganda is provided directly to American audiences through Facebook.
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@surendramumgai631 A joke is the truth with a twist. No one really thinks a gun was pointed through a television broadcast, because that would be absurd and pointless. This is just an exaggeration to mock how the Soviet Union had a monopoly on media and that there was a powerful surveillance system looking for dissenters.
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@surendramumgai631 If you don't count dying from forced labor in a gulag as an "execution", then the Soviet Union didn't execute that many people.
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@surendramumgai631 It is believed that 18,000,000 people passed through the Gulag's camps that operated until 1961.
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@surendramumgai631 In Soviet Russia, a man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”
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@surendramumgai631 In Soviet Russia, a prisoner goes to the jail's library to borrow a book. The librarian says: "We don't have this book, but we have its author."
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Can you imagine doing it for a post cold war series: Putin - Clinton Putin - Bush Putin - Obama Putin - Trump Putin - Biden Putin - ?
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@surendramumgai631 While there wasn't any famines after Stalin, the shelves were always empty of meat, vegetables, and fruit. Until the fall of the Iron Curtain, the diet was mostly bread and other grain based products.
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@surendramumgai631 After the Soviet Union collapsed, Russians called chicken "Bush wings", because it was the first time they had access to cheap meat.
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@surendramumgai631 That is because Russia isn't a real capitalist country. Capitalism requires rule of law and transparency instead a government that only enforces laws that funnel money to the pockets of Putin's friends. Ukraine and Belarus have similar issues. The countries that followed the EU standards do not look fondly at the Soviet Union.
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@oldesertguy9616 Was the crime rate low or did it just seem low, because crime statistics were a state secret? The Soviets thought they were safer, but they also thought they richer than the dirty capitalist nations.
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@surendramumgai631 Putin just stole assets of the old oligarchs and made his friends the new oligarchs. How do you think Putin's Judo coach became a billionaire? The system just further concentrated wealth in the hands of the oligarchs. Putin only got lucky after the 90s when oil prices were at a high. Now that the country is floundering due to low oil prices. This would be less of an issue if Putin's friends didn't smuggle all the oil wealth oversees when times were good.
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@surendramumgai631 In Soviet Russia, you are what you eat, so therefore you are nothing.
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The stigma to socialism seemed to work out pretty favorable to the US economy. Wolverines!
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Wierd. I remember seeing in 2016 on FB a bunch of fake news about Clinton as Trump was praised for bringing us closer to Russia. I'm sure Russia had nothing to do with it.
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In Soviet Russia, radio listens to you.
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In Soviet Russia, radio listens to you.
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@troller8680 The West has crony capitalism too, but Russia and Ukraine took it to the extreme.
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fa q Real wages were on the rise until covid hit, the price of rent is going up in every developed country, and healthcare cost are high because people are living longer. Meanwhile, every country that embraced a socialist economic system collapsed with the exception of Cuba where everyone is equally poor.
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@moderndayennui4999 People have a pretty bad confirmation bias and tend to only distrust sources that tell them something that conflicts with their world view. That is why people who hate Trump were willing to believe the Steele dossier that said Trump was being blackmailed by Russia, and why people who hate Hillary Clinton were willing to believe Pizzagate articles that claim she was involved in child sex trafficking.
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@troller8680 The obvious exceptions being the countries that aligned with the EU. The EU requires anti corruption laws that make it difficult (but not impossible) for the Oligarchs to build wealth without actually adding value. Meanwhile, the Oligarchs is Russia and Ukraine get wealthy by holding all of the countries' natural resources and using political corruption to guarantee themselves overpaid government contracts. This is different from American billionaires who actually need to provide a superior product or service. The Ukraine voters recognize the problem, but the system (& the Oligarchs) seem to resist the change.
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@troller8680 Zelenskiy seems to be trying to fight corruption, but the president isn't all powerful and many legislators don't want to change anything that could threaten their own corruption.
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@troller8680 His actions say otherwise. Also, it is a good sign that the oligarchs don't like him
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@Olga-de3ru Stop spamming with your fake language. Russian isn't a real country. It is just a province of Mongolia that cosplays as the Ukrainian culture that came from Keiv.
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@dragosstanciu9866 Some idiot posting lies in his basement has much less impact than an organized disinformation campaign run by an intelligence service. Seeing something once is usually meaningless, so you have hit people with a message multiple times and preferably from multiple directions. (There is a reason you keep seeing the same ads over and over again on YouTube).
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@dragosstanciu9866 Every country uses social media to paint themselves in a good light, but the scale of Russia's disinformation campaign is unprecedented.
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