Yeah

Russia is just... A badly transitioned country, like most East European countries.

I mean Russia was like PRC not too long ago

I know

It was a great music market to exploit when the overthrow happened

Well countries like Poland Czechs Slovenia etc. transitioned fine because they're populations never believed the communist propaganda

Have u seen the slums in eastern europe

Poland did the best with their shock privatization

A lot of post soviet cities are dead

Just wastelands

Except Baltic States

Baltic states seem pretty fine

Baltic States are pretty cool

Werent they yugoslavia a bit ago?

Until 1989

Baltic states were part of the USSR

Then the fun ethnic wars

Yugoslavia had Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, ~~Kosovo~~, Montenegro etc.

What happened to libya

Before they were talking about bringing together africa

Then before you know it, ghadaffi is killed and the country starts the slave trade again

Communist Poland had lots of freedom compared to other Soviet states and had somewhat good relations with the west, and had freedom of religion

Gaddafi really was keeping a lid on the beast as he said

He was a bit too ruthless on his enemies

And he was a socialist

Poland also saved Europe from Communism see Polish Soviet war

He wanted all the oil money to be given out to every arab citizen

Yeah but its better than the child slave markets reopening, and 90,000 more Libyans dying in the following civil war

In addition to being a funnel for human trafficking to Europe

And he was about to buy manchester united football club

I still think that had the soviets not invaded afghanistan in the 70s then islamic extremism would be really low

Osama Bin-Laden was "an anti-Soviet warrior on the road to peace"

Then he said something like Saudi arabia has been infiltrated by the devil and that we should destroy the US

But it was the Saudis who sent them there in the first place

Bill Clinton let him go in 1993

We had the opportunity

Afghanistan pre the russian invasion was way more liberal than now

Its because of the communists anti religion that a lot of people geared to extremism

Which is why in the 70s Iran had its revolution

Even Pakistan and Turkey became more conservative

I still can't wrap my head around why Afghani culture has the grooming of boys