It was very different from Belarus. And you know I can't tell you that))

All right; how was the assimilation process?

Do you think you're still not assimilated yet?

"Assimilation"?

I never assassinated anyone

Assimilating

It means getting used to the new country

Blending in with its people, its culture, etc.

Yes very different from Belarus. Very hot, no snow. People were kinda shocked when I told them I was Belarusian

They're very sarcastic

Do people in Australia even know Belarus exists?

So uhm white russia is a hot nation i hear

I tell them it used t be the Soviet Union

Because I bet you half the people in my Advanced Placement History class don't even know that Belarus is a country.

Or back then I just said "the Soviet Union"

hmmm

How did they react to that?

Very shocked, intrigued, maybe even scared

Yeah, there is a lot of anti-Soviet propaganda around westernized countries.

So I've seen

anti-Communist propaganda in general.

The have very skewed views on the Soviet Union

And think "communism is when the government does stuff"

My History teacher totally forgets the fact that the USSR did a bunch of good things as well that helped the US and always makes the USSR seem as bad as they possibly can

When communism is a stateless, classless society

The soviet union didnt start really failing till it massively reformed its economy to capitalism

^^

No

Way before him

Khrushchev

But gorbachev was the final straw

I like the idea of Glasnost in general but I heavily dislike the dissolution of the USSR

Gorbachev was certainly the most revisionist

And the things that Gorbachev did to lessen the influence of the USSR

he wasnt even a socialist.

Most people in the ussr voted to keep it together

The Russian and belarusian leaders didnt care

I'm 99% sure my piano teacher was born in the USSR

She's like 60-something and she has a Russian accent (or at least Slavic)

yeltsin: HA HA fuck of with that honor shit