“Ignoring Russia” is when you (the most prolific invader in the world) declare your intent to antagonise Russia, do a coup against a neighbouring neutral state, and attempt to get your military to its border.

The fact that you seriously think that people were not paid in the USSR is extremely silly.

You are keep implying that the vast majority of people lived better in the Russian Empire, and that praising the Russian Empire this way is somehow not edgy.

Not the person whom you asked, but

Who are you to define “meaningful”?

To get a good view on the matter, it would require having worked and having gone through a process of getting new housing both before Gorbachyov and after the fall of the USSR. Something tells me that people who earn, say, 30 000 or so rubles (or an analogous sum) per month today were in a much better spot back before Gorbachyov.

The experiences of my family (in the USSR) were not as you describe. Things were cheap and necessities were available. Getting some things was more difficult for non-price reasons. That also seems to align with studies like what the CIA conducted about access to nutrition in the USSR.

Overall, that was a significant improvement over what came before, as well as over what came after.

The labels should be swapped.
It is overwhelmingly the western 12 year-olds that complain about praise for communism/communist revolutions.

Also, let’s not pretend as if Eastern Europeans were oppressed by the Warsaw Pact, unlike how NATO treats the vast majority of the world.

By stamping out Prague spring

Suppressing NATO-backed nazis is not a bad thing, contrary to what you claim.

There are plenty of folks who came over after the bulk of the genocide was largely done. Don’t think an Italian coming over in the 1910s had fuck all to do with the Native American genocide.

The US did not stop at that genocide.

But even ignoring that you are assuming that this is all a black and white situation when people are rarely that. For example the early Scots-Irish population in Appalachia generally got along well enough with native Americans often times even mixing together, you could also have the later Irish immigrants from the Irish genocide by the English inflicting the same fate apon Native Americans in the great planes.

And yet, what the (pre-)USians were doing was still predominantly a settler-colonial genocide, regardless of whether there were a few nice exceptions.

Weight is a force.
What did you think it was, and what did you think it was measured in?

Also, ironic to complain about social sciences not being sciences while also failing at basic physics.

Also, you are mixing up measures and units of measurement.

Two things can both be bad.

They can, but they aren’t in this case.

And It’s not for some reason. He killed so many people.

Killing nazis is not a bad thing, actually. Nor were they ‘his own people’.

No one can take you seriously when you praise a monster like Stalin.

You are yet to actually explain why he is supposedly such a ‘monster’. Just admit that your sole source of information on Stalin has been memes from the same people that sold you on Iraq’s WMDs.
And no, again, killing nazis is not a bad thing.

What is so absurd about not liking genocidal slavers and liking people who fought against that?
If you think that Stalin is so bad, why can’t you point to the reasons why he should be considered so?

Your response is funny, considering that I am actually correct. I do invite you to prove me wrong, but we both know you won’t.

NATO had been pushing for war with Russia for a while. It finally got it.

So yeah, either of the recent blue governments can be said to have started the war.

In my entire lifetime, only republicans have started wars

Are you less than two years old? Did you already forget that the most recent blue government invaded Yemen and prepared to invade Iran?

Democrats are, for the most part, pro union.

Is this a joke?

RvW was overturned under the USian dem government, after decades of promising to codify it, and at a time when all of the relevant judges could have just been replaced.

If you think that Piton is trying to reform the USSR, you are unaware about what the USSR was, and/or about what contemporary Russia is.

“Call them out” on what? That person said that 200€ is 5% of 760€ with a straight face.

You were the one who claimed that most people reliably live with 5% or less of their income going to housing expenses.

The Soviet union literally occupied parts of central and eastern europe?

Weird way to describe liberation from maxi Germany this way.
Ah, wait, you bemoan the fact that those countries were not allowed to plunder Africa and Asia, don’t you?

They crushed uprisings in Hungray and Czechoslovakia

Suppressing NATO-backed nazis is good, actually. Not sure what you disagree with.

That’s some pretty colonial stances.

No, those are not. None of those things were enforcing relations of severely unequal exchange.

Their funding for anti-colonial movements was really just anti-western colonialism

In what way was that colonialism when those actions actually had a decolonising effect?