Post #1786176 · Elektrine

2026-04-29 10:10 UTC

Regretting the fall of the USSR and stating that they live worse lives economically than under socialism doesn't make them all fascists. There's a collective yearning for a time when life *was* better, that doesn't make every one of them fascist, and the fact that fascists try to take advantage of this fact to gain power does not mean that socialism was secretly worse. I demonstrated numerous ways how the dissolution of socialism was disastrous to back this up, which you called "fangirling" (which itself is misogynistic and misgendering) and unrelated.

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@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-04-29 10:19

"Better" can also be defined as simply not going through the total collapse of one's country. Stability, not economic power, has value. Humans do a lot to maintain homeostasis and low risk living. It's a looooong timeline to unfuck a country. Generations, in fact. Not limited to post-Soviet bloc counties either. Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, the US after the Civil War, Germany, Italy, Spain, Iraq. Take your pick. How many East Germans "regretted" the collapse of the Nazi regime simply because their currency ceased to buy them food? Stop thinking that an economic model of governance solves or causes all problems. Humans cause problems. They'll use any economic model to show you how easy it is to fuck it up.

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