• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      What academic sources have you read about the internal functions of the USSR?

      lol you don’t need a thesis to know that people having to lining up for basic essentials is broke for a superpower.

      fuck mate, even in the 80s you couldn’t just go to the store and buy sour cream - they had no plastics industry, so you’d have to bring your own container to a vendor you know that had received sour cream recently, and they’d measure it out into your container.

      Estimate go from 40-60 percent of the entire GDP being wasted on defense because you gotta keep those satellite stans under control.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Why would you ever limit yourself to academic sources?

      Personally, I’d prefer sources that were actually there to any “academic source”.

      But that’s just me, you do you, professor.

      • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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        13 hours ago

        No one is limiting anyone to academic sources, please don’t try to spin what’s said. It makes you worse at discussion.

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      17 hours ago

      Read- none of note. Personal experience as a volunteer with a refugee resettlement agency and interacting with refugees from Soviet states- a fuck ton.

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              Maybe you didn’t notice, but i’m not OP

              Also, i would love to hear your high academic backed opinion, explaining why building the wall of berlin was needed.

              Maybe you have doubts about its existance? I mean, you are calling it ‘usa propaganda’… can you back that up with some publications?