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[โ€“] 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 child)

That's a rather silly claim, considering that plenty of people's lives did get worse after the undemocratic dismantlement of the USSR (which most of these supposed USSR-haters voted against), and the rest are now beneficiaries of things like invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

It's not really surprising that people who join gangs of robbers, murderers and torturers hate not being beneficiaries of such and will claim that they were oppressed even when their living standards were demonstrably some of the best in the world.

Also, you do understand that the USSR was one of the most significant forces behind the decolonization of Africa and Asia, and that it helped liberation movements there, right? And you do understand what that means with regards to what sort of people would hate it, don't you?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Sure, the march 1991 referendum supported preserving the USSR, but by that time Poland, Hungary and the baltics had already seceded, and Ukraine had a referendum with an opposite result 9 months later.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 hours ago

    Considering that the living standards in (among many other places) Ukraine fell massively as a result of the fall of the USSR, and that the other states that you mentioned are invaders of Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of relevant complaints are serious.

    If somebody hates the USSR but not, for example, the current Hungary and Poland, that somebody supports things like colonialism and worse.

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