I’m pretty sure 99% of my political leanings come from having lived in the Soviet Bloc. The rose-colored glasses Americans have about the USSR are pretty incredible.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1022621865074978816 …
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Not sure if I’m transliterating those names correctly, only know how they’re spelled in Russian
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No American would ever know the difference.
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Interesting, have a few friends from Donetsk. Although, the situation there now is awful. I too used to live in USSR (BASSR, Ufa to be exact) and still remember empty shops and allotment in the beginning of 90ies.pic.twitter.com/QMU9daRH0S
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Ya most people I knew in Donetsk/Makeevka fled west for safety. A couple former friends joined the Donetsk People’s’ Republic militia, which shocked me
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The hard thing about that area is the mafia-run government that replaced the USSR isn’t much better
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