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Igel

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1. Somehow I don't find the Ukrainian results all that informative.
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 08:52 PM
Oct 2019

I mean, 30 years later it's lost territory in the south and southeast with thousands dead. If it were still Soviet, that wouldn't have happened. Ukraine is in the same boat as former Yugoslav republics, to a large extent; and even Moldova has felt the pain of pissing off their former occupying colonial power. (I use loaded language wrt the USSR because for so long such great efforts were taken to show the opposite--that it was benevolent, anti-imperialist and pro-proletariat.)

Part is also due to how the different countries handled things right after the breakup. Poland, Ceska, eastern Germany, Slovenia all had fairly quick projects to reform their economic and governmental systems. Hungary was a bit slower, Slovakia much more slow. Bulgaria and Ukraine were split over how to deal with Russia, and both halted between the two sides, sort of in a corrupt limbo.

I'd be curious as to how Romania fared in the survey, but don't feel like taking the time to check.

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