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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by betwixthewires on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:33PM (#28618405)
I cannot tell if you're being facetious or not, but it was a fun paragraph to read as well. All communist regimes are Potemkin villages.
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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by hutzlibu on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:23AM (#28625732)
Sputnik was quite real, though. As were lots of other things. For example the industrialisation of a big country that was in poor rural state before, while being blocked by the west.

Not everyone in the sowjets was forced to be there. Idealism is a strong driving force, otherwise the sowjet empire would not have sustained itself for so long on propaganda alone.

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