from what i can gather it's a mix of corruption and everyone hating everyone

The soviets basically propagandad them into poverty

bot even lying

same happened here

We just hate team work.

Although we are slowly getting better

There is a joke among our nation.

There is a saying here

Everyone around the Balkans hate each other

One Bulgar is worth 10 Japanese

but everyone hates the Turks more

the soviets collapsed ages ago though so why the fuck can't you make a first world nation

but 10 Bulgars ain't worth a single Japanese.

This is why we are so poor.

@tea_in_space because the people who lived in the USSR are still alive

We just like beating each other's shit more than making money together.

It's only officially collapsed around 89

Cultural thing.

even after that it took time

The last soldier left in 2001 here

wait but i thought it was 1991 when it was gone

A collapse of a country is not like it's POOF

happened

it happens over time

oh yeah thats more or less the state of western europe

that's when the ussr oficially imploded. obviously a LOT of shit was unsolved

Not even counting that today's Russia is still 80% the same USSR as it was in the 1980's

Problem is here on the Balkans we are too busy stealing from each other to actually create something useful for us all to make us rich.

People just don't call it USSR anymore

Even though the USSR was anti russian

@tea_in_space where the hell did you get that from

to be pro - russian would have been to support the monarchy

even if the ussr didn't have a tradition of ignoring issues which couldn't be resolved without making it evident communism is shit, when a country implodes things generally go to shit on their own much harder than normal

Ah, that kinda thing

@tea_in_space Whoever rules Russia is ALWAYS against its people

No, everyone hated the tsar around 1917

Russians have never seen a government that is pro-Russian.

Nobility, Peasants, everyone

well the USSR killed a fuck tone of Russian's there for the USSR was anti russian

I guess that is a kinda logic

yeah the last monarch was incompantant but compire it to what happened after and the Tsar seemed pretty good