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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by Tarq0n on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:23PM (#32655288)
That's a very serious claim, could you please provide some citations?
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by cjbgkagh on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:33PM (#32655408)
A peer comment reminded me of the name 'shock therapy', the think tank was called 'Harvard institute for international development'.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how...

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...

My original comment has been flagged. I'd like to know why. If I'm wrong I'd like to be corrected.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by saalweachter on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:36PM (#32656041)
If I had to guess, it's because George Soros is often used as synecdoche for "the vast Jewish conspiracy" by anti-Semites, so your comment sounds an awful lot like "the Jews are responsible for ruining Russia".

Which, uh, sounds a lot like anti-Semitic rhetoric not uncommon in, among other places, Russia.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by pessimizer on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:00PM (#32655734)
It was flagged for not sufficiently praising the awful behavior of the US during and after the fall of the USSR.
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