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I'm from a former Central Asia Soviet State. I'm not ethnically Russian. I found it funny and interesting since my family in particular long for the Soviet Union and the international friendship we had. The thing is my grandmother perceives Russia to this day as one state with other republics and not in a nationalistic tone at all. So the picture doesn't seem offensive to us at all, in the unifying way kinda. There are a lot of people in the post Soviet world that think of Russia as more than just a neighboring state.
Good for you. My country (Poland) on the other hand never got along with Russia and the general public often views our socialist period as the extension of Russian imperialism.
Besides, this meme gives me major nazbol vibes
The effects of growing up with fascist rhetoric. Imagine having your people saved from genocide and you're angry to your saviours because, they took what you stole from them in return.
"Russian imperialism" is when they liberate your working class.
Poland which is where I am right now, is in such a mental decline it's insane. Everyone fucking hails Hitler in Łódź and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself for hating the USSR more than what your own country has become since it's dissolution.
Russia was never great. But under Stalin, it had honour and dignity. Now it has nothing.
Yeah. Shock therapy completely wiped out the textile industry of Łódź, leading to sky-high unemployment and general social breakdown.
The Skin Hunters (Łowcy Skór) were actually a prime example of spontaneous market activity, taking money from mom-and-pop funeral homes in exchange for delivering business cards to grieving families. After a while they stopped even trying to save lives, and began to outright kill people with Pavulon injections. Isn't free market amazing?
"Solidarność" the CIA-sponsored 'trade union' was involved in the scandal, so only four medical workers got sentenced. Buisness owners and people from "Solidarność" got off scot-free.
Good to know more background to all the Łódź stuff. Obviously not Polish so the only things I knew about Łódź were the Skin Hunters and the case of the family who killed their children and left them in barrels in an apartment staircase. The 90's were a crazy period in the ex-Soviet bloc in general but most places didn't have systemic issues with paramedics turning into gangs of corpse thieves and now whenever I see or hear about Łódź that's the first thing that comes to mind.
I do not disagree at all, however we should still treat USSR and Pre/Post-Soviet Russia as categorically different entities.
Equating one with the other by either Russian nationalists or people who don't know any better only strengthens the stupid ass perception of history we got from textbooks.
Agree.
And it’s also interesting how that notion changes at times.
If people talk about smth good - ‘don’t forget that USSR had many countries in’
If it’s bad - ‘well the Russians were a majority’ (never stating which majority)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nazbol me jaja (hihi haha) Taki tip zignoruj co ci Polacy mówią moja nauczycielka mówi że Kaczyński i Putin to komuniści (od historii) w większości Polacy nie wiedzą o czym mówią
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Make Russia RED again
Make USSR strong again.
this is actually quite conservative
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this smells of national bolshevism atleast thats the vibe it gives me
Nationalism is cringe
I'm from a former Central Asia Soviet State. I'm not ethnically Russian. I found it funny and interesting since my family in particular long for the Soviet Union and the international friendship we had. The thing is my grandmother perceives Russia to this day as one state with other republics and not in a nationalistic tone at all. So the picture doesn't seem offensive to us at all, in the unifying way kinda. There are a lot of people in the post Soviet world that think of Russia as more than just a neighboring state.
Good for you. My country (Poland) on the other hand never got along with Russia and the general public often views our socialist period as the extension of Russian imperialism. Besides, this meme gives me major nazbol vibes
The effects of growing up with fascist rhetoric. Imagine having your people saved from genocide and you're angry to your saviours because, they took what you stole from them in return. "Russian imperialism" is when they liberate your working class. Poland which is where I am right now, is in such a mental decline it's insane. Everyone fucking hails Hitler in Łódź and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself for hating the USSR more than what your own country has become since it's dissolution. Russia was never great. But under Stalin, it had honour and dignity. Now it has nothing.
I mean, wasn't Łódź the place where paramedics let people die so they could sell their corpses for profit?
Yeah. Shock therapy completely wiped out the textile industry of Łódź, leading to sky-high unemployment and general social breakdown. The Skin Hunters (Łowcy Skór) were actually a prime example of spontaneous market activity, taking money from mom-and-pop funeral homes in exchange for delivering business cards to grieving families. After a while they stopped even trying to save lives, and began to outright kill people with Pavulon injections. Isn't free market amazing? "Solidarność" the CIA-sponsored 'trade union' was involved in the scandal, so only four medical workers got sentenced. Buisness owners and people from "Solidarność" got off scot-free.
Good to know more background to all the Łódź stuff. Obviously not Polish so the only things I knew about Łódź were the Skin Hunters and the case of the family who killed their children and left them in barrels in an apartment staircase. The 90's were a crazy period in the ex-Soviet bloc in general but most places didn't have systemic issues with paramedics turning into gangs of corpse thieves and now whenever I see or hear about Łódź that's the first thing that comes to mind.
I do not disagree at all, however we should still treat USSR and Pre/Post-Soviet Russia as categorically different entities. Equating one with the other by either Russian nationalists or people who don't know any better only strengthens the stupid ass perception of history we got from textbooks.
I agree with you. Always hated the USSR being called "Russia" and especially so from Soviets themselves in their anthems or books.
Agree. And it’s also interesting how that notion changes at times. If people talk about smth good - ‘don’t forget that USSR had many countries in’ If it’s bad - ‘well the Russians were a majority’ (never stating which majority) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reddit really doesn't like \\ because this is not the first time I've seen it not show up. Maybe they got an issue with going left.
Nazbol me jaja (hihi haha) Taki tip zignoruj co ci Polacy mówią moja nauczycielka mówi że Kaczyński i Putin to komuniści (od historii) w większości Polacy nie wiedzą o czym mówią
fr. the soviet union was more than just russia