PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoGood job, Britain! A major contribution to the nations of the world!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up11.31K
arrow-up11.29Kexternal-linkGood job, Britain! A major contribution to the nations of the world!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square126fedilink
minus-squareManzas@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·3 months agoThat’s like saying communism brought up living standards for eastern Europe (It didn’t)
minus-squareManzas@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoAnd don’t go down voting thinking I am some Englishman or American I live in eastern europe
minus-squareManzas@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoAsk any person who lived at the time and why did Lithuania break of the USSR if it was so good
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoAsk a serf from tsarist imperial (for the pedants) Russia?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoYou do know there’s a period of independence between Tsarist Russia and Soviet domination, right?
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoCalling them emperors for a little while but not changing anything else isn’t anything like independence
That’s like saying communism brought up living standards for eastern Europe (It didn’t)
And don’t go down voting thinking I am some Englishman or American I live in eastern europe
(it did though)
Ask any person who lived at the time and why did Lithuania break of the USSR if it was so good
Ask a serf from
tsaristimperial (for the pedants) Russia?You do know there’s a period of independence between Tsarist Russia and Soviet domination, right?
Calling them emperors for a little while but not changing anything else isn’t anything like independence