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Much like in the US , the rich rule the roost. The USSR falling was a tragedy.
But they still ruled in the Soviet Union also.
Incorrect. Though the president of Russia post-soviet union had been part of the soviet union at one time, he quit. He championed a free open market, murdered thousands of protesters, and then trashed the place. In a nutshell.
Allow me to rephrase: There was still a class hierarchy in the Soviet Union.
Time for you to explain. The USSR wasn’t a full communist utopian society, mostly due to being in war with the west for like 70 years, but it provided an overall fantastic quality of life.
Except if you were colonised like the Ukrainians, the Holodomor and all that
You’re doing a poor job of looking things up on the fly. Famine was something that happened frequently in that period of time. The Soviet Union resolved the issue by ensuring stability in the future.
Why argue a topic you’re unfamiliar with?
That sounds like you’re denying the Holodomor as something ‘that just happens’
It wasn’t. The Famine was man-made from the actions of Stalin’s Soviet Union and specifically targeted Ukrainians.
But that isn’t westernization, that is regression
They joined the “free open” market, but you are correct about it being a regression.