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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:51AM (#36878666)
From peasant-based aristocratic power to an industrialized superpower in not many decades. Seems functional to me.
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by mwbajor on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:55AM (#36878731)
Give me 3 examples of Bolshevik influence that still remain today.

You don't even need to give me positive examples, just examples.

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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by tech_ken on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:49AM (#36879740)
Gazprom? Maybe someone else will come up with the other 2
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:19PM (#36885205)
Why are you moving the goal post? The country was functional although it didn’t last forever, and was eventually disbanded.
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by mwbajor on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:20AM (#36907185)
There's no goalpost moving. The point is that the USSR was so successful that no one wants to copy its legacy nor did anyone want to emigrate there.
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