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A comment on Belarus’s Soviet Economy. Parent comment

Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by tasubotadas on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:09AM (#21675541)
Why is emigration bad? It is good. People who left started earning more, and people who stayed, started earning more.

The only ones who see that in a bad light are pro-nationalist lackeys that put the state above an individual person.

It's a win-win.

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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by sam_lowry_ on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:58AM (#21675737)
Industry and even agriculture decline in Baltics are a major reason for emigration. The old EU countries got cheap labour and killed competition. Do you really think the Ignalina power plant was closed for environmental reasons? And the lack of funds for the trans-baltic railway, was it due to these countries lack of cooperation?
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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by AndriyKunitsyn on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:17AM (#21675829)
>people who stayed, started earning more

Citation needed on this one.

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