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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by daminimal on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:33AM (#32660098)
So, every country that did not do better did worse? Sounds about right.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by qwytw on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:24AM (#32674400)
Well close to 300 million people lived in the USSR. Only 8 million of them lived in the Baltic states.

I still personally think the (mostly) peaceful dissolution of the USSR was probably one the best things that happened in the past 100 years. But transition to capitalism was extremely mismanaged, even in the “successful” countries.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by coldtea on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:49PM (#32665806)
You snark at it, but this tautology is a far better claim than the original ("all/most countries did better").
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