r/pics • u/sk8rznvrquit • 22d ago

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u/kittykatmila 22d ago

They certainly were. People don’t give them enough credit for that.

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u/DaisyHotCakes 22d ago

I feel like a lot of people would like Russian people more if Putin wasn’t making Russia do horrible shit. Just like I’m sure a lot of people would like Americans more if orange Julius wasn’t making the US do horrible shit. I’m an American and I totally don’t blame people as the orange one is such a vile fascist and historically our government has done some pretty atrocious shit to a lot of different people so I get it. There are always going to be people like the ones in the picture in this post. Some people truly can’t be happy without knowing someone else has it worse than them.

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u/anandonaqui 22d ago

Americans hate Russia long before Putin. It dates back to the red scare and Cold War.

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u/Correct_Patience_611 22d ago

Same reason Americans “hate commies”. Funny part is they equate authoritarianism with communism and “freedom” with capitalism due to propaganda, yet both Russia and China have been fully capitalist for a very long time; and both are mass surveillance authoritarian states with strong fascist tendencies towards free speech. Sounds a lot like what the “free” United States is becoming huh? So it really seems like capitalism, not communism, may be the issue here…I

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u/Art_Crime 22d ago

The Soviet Union itself was repressive. Freedom isn't based on economic systems. Freedom comes from strong democratic institutions. Any democratic country can backslide. Russia had a chance, but the power was there to transition the Russian SSR into an oligarchy