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[โ€“] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How about loosing 27 million people 80 years ago fighting the Nazis? If that didn't happen we could be counting the offspring of another 10-15 million Russians. Then the famine, loosing their country, and building a new state. The 1990s, early 2000s must have been the complete opposite in Russia than in the USA. Also, in the 1980s the USSR was already collapsing.