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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by avmich on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:49AM (#32658826)
> but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where

True, it was a quite big transformation of lives for everybody - fortunately without a major civil war, though with many lesser wars in less centralized regions. Yet the result was an improvement on average, in Russia it started to feel in 1999, and even earlier in Baltic countries. Wouldn't be sure about Asian countries though.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by romwell on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:55AM (#32663953)
Sure, but 8 years of turmoil without a "major" civil war (but two Chechen wars with massive destruction and causlties) is a very, very low bar.