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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by einpoklum on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:00PM (#32656280)
Tell that to people in Belarus or Ukraine (not talking about the situation since 2014), Kazakhstan etc. Not sure about the situation in the others. A post talking about "GDP per capita" rather than what people's lives are like is kind of a joke.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by cezart on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:10PM (#32656366)
You can add Moldova to the list. Yes, now the people have well wealthier lifestyles than during he soviet period, and overall the direction seems optimist. But going from a postcard republic of sorts, to literally the poorest country in Europe, the transition has heavily bruised many people's faiths.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by cpursley on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:45PM (#32656611)
Yeah, Moldova is an order of magnitude worse-off now:

https://youtu.be/wnDxHTaeNX0

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by sam_lowry_ on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:14AM (#32658992)
Fraud and incompetence are the reason as much as political changes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Moldovan_bank_fraud_sca...
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by cpursley on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:44PM (#32656600)
Fwiw, Russian PPP is not far behind Germany.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by morsch on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:36AM (#32658770)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
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