The key difference is that the universities and some professors are on "China"'s payroll whereas I don't think the USSR was doing that.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Some were (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty …) but probably not to the same extent as contemporary universities/professors, you're right.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Yeah they gave him an apartment even women in exchange for supportive NYT coverage.
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Replying to @gsvigruha
Working on it one scandalous Amazon tweet at a time.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
You'll get that Shanghai loft one day i believe in you
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up until this point i've only ever had my lofts seized by the chinese gov't. still waiting on them to give me one, tsk tsk tsk
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i don't know maybe you need to switch superpowers. have you ever considered Rio? Moscow probably too cold. wanna avoid Jakarta for sure.
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Haha, if any country was going to give me a free apartment for overly positive coverage, it'd Ethiopia.
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