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Are you implying that Libya is not a desert and that I am a moron for thinking so?
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No, just for being so dismissive of Libya, which was one of the most progressive and advanced countries in the world, before NATO got involved providing air support for ISIS.
And what's your expert analysis of Australia based on Satellite images? "Big Desert"?
https://scoopempire.com/27-photos-to...iful-libya-is/
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As for Russia - Soviet era was shit because of communism.
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That's funny, considering the Communist era is objectively the greatest era in Russian history, certainly in terms of the social and technological advancement of the country.
Practically everything that exists in Russia today, other than farms, was established and built in the Soviet period.
Before Communism Russia was a backward, illiterate, low life-expectancy joke on the world stage, while just a generation after the revolution life expectancy had doubled, illiteracy was gone and the country was transformed into a nuclear superpower with a GDP second only to the USA, inspiring the whole world with pioneering space exploration.
The running down of Communism in the late 80s was such a catastrophe for Russia that by the mid 90s the Communist Party was the biggest party in the Duma, and then won but was cheated out of the 1996 presidential election.
The shit part of the Soviet era was that it was oppressive and restrictive. Key features of Russia today.
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If you look at East Germany before whole Berlin Wall then it was also sad place, and now without communism people are content.
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Again, not because of Communism, but totalitarianism. It's a myth that everyone in East Germany was happy with reunification, when there have been huge issues with it.
Ostalgia isn't just about road crossing lights.
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Russia has everything. To put it another way - if Russia was it's own planet, it could support it's own population. People can survive and thrive without iphones.
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Maybe they could before iPhones existed. It's like after a nuclear war, sure you can survive, and a lot of infrastructure will even still exist, but after a certain standard of living, why would you want to revert back to a relative stone age, cut off from the rest of the world.