The Old Are Eating the Young

Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by freeflight on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:09PM (#14555701)

I actually grew up on both sides of the Iron Curtain, maybe that's why I struggle playing along with this Star Wars like narrative which insists it's "good guys vs bad guys".

No place is perfect and how "bad" a place ends up, always depending on how much an individual adapts to the given circumstances of said place. This holds true regardless of where you are, a democracy, a dictatorship or anything in-between.

Btw: If you want to talk about Crimea then we first need to start talking about Kiev [0]. Of course, that won't happen because then the whole "Russia as aggressor" narrative wouldn't fit as neatly.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by ThrowawayR2 on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:10AM (#14569102)

There might not be "good guys vs bad guys" but there is certainly a "better vs worse" and it's quite plain to see which side of the Iron Curtain, even after its fall, fared better overall, culturally, intellectually, and economically.

That "better" is worth defending against the encroachment of the "worse".

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