@nadiaalbelushi if you’d pay attention to Ukrainian voices, you’d hear that this great communist monolith unity you’re nostalgic for was nothing but oppression and gaslighting.
Really baffling to me that you can in the same breath say you don’t want Kuwait absorbed into Iraq and also say the USSR represented a better world.
I really don’t think the Baltic states or any of the other satellite republics that gained independence would see it that way. Stalin was a cold blooded murderer of ethnic minorities.
Putin is continuing the tradition. Most of the combat deaths are Russia’s ethnic minorities. The closer you get to Moscow, the harder it is to find anyone who was killed in the war.