• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    It would not be an improvement - do you have any idea how bad the 1990s were in Russia?

    There’s a reason that Putin has high support, and it’s not all manufactured. It’s that the Yeltsin shock therapy was really traumatic - largest peacetime drop in life expectancy in recorded history.