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    1 year ago

    Wow, the level of dishonesty in your post is startling. Almost all (or perhaps all?) of your links have serious problems with them. I wish I had time to debunk them all, but let’s go with just the first one for now.

    7 out of 11 countries believe the end of the USSR harmed their countries rather than benefited them

    According to the article itself, there are 15 countries that came from the Soviet Union, not 11. And obviously Estonians, Latvias, and Lithuanians would not say that the fall of the SU hurt them. (For the fourth, Uzbekistan, I don’t know which way they would go.) But “7 (or 8) out of 15 countries believe the end of the USSR harmed their countries rather than benefited them” doesn’t have the same ring to it, so you didn’t post that, because you are dishonest.

    And that the study didn’t conclude that these countries wanted to return to communism or return to the Soviet Union (they don’t, other than Russians, the imperialists), it concluded that they believe that the fall of the SU hurt them. Which is plausible: collapse events aren’t pretty, even if it’s the collapse of an evil regime (see Iraq with ISIS filling the void for another example). You of course conflate the these points to pretend that these countries want communism and the SU back.

    Maybe if you didn’t have such a ideological agenda you wouldn’t dishonestly cherry pick headlines for propaganda purposes?

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      1 year ago

      Ahh yes the famous american communist propaganda outlet Gallup which certainly isn’t widely regarded worldwide.

      This comment is dripping with sarcasm, in case you didn’t notice.

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        1 year ago

        Nice job avoiding all my main points.

        The only problem with the Gallup link is only the title, which is (probably unintentionally) misleading. I didn’t say anything about it being propaganda, that’s just more of your bullshitting.