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Re:Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black ... by nasredin on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:20AM (#15337698)
> The vast majority of the country were in ruins

He's talking about WWII, probably the single biggest even to shape Soviet/Russian worldview.

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Re:Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black ... by thriftwy on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:25AM (#15338399)
"yet its people were immensely proud of advances in Korea/Afghanistan/Vietnam/Egypt and whatever other warzone the USSR was involved at that time"

Afghanistan was in late 1970-s, I mean come on. Egypt before that but pretty far from ruins period. One can probably only claim it about Korean War.

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