Damn, sanctions really hitting them hard. Utterly devastated.
When ur sanctioned so McDonald’s “leaves” but the McDonald’s means of production are still in Russia so you can reopen McDonald’s without most of the money going to America
So what you’re saying is…Russia seized the means of burger production?
There is also one thing those who were forced to leave the Russian market had to sell their companies at a very low price or government just seized it with backhand . Means first it went to some shady private players and then it to the close confidants of Putin who are just state puppets.
So Russia is technically in the G5 ;)
It feels so good to see the west wane and by its own accord. No one invaded or bombed or colonized the west, they are destroying themselves by themselves.
Perhaps so, but now Russia no longer has McDonald’s or Pizza Hut.
hmmm, the russian economy grew after the fast food chains responsible for the downfall of the ussr left
HMMMM 🤔 🤔
Incoherence of the union center and its parts falling into civil war with each other were somewhat more important than fast food chains IMVHO.
But if not for GKChP coup, it could be preserved as a single state.
These guys turned on jammers over half of USSR’s territory, sent troops to take control of TV and radio broadcasting stations, put tanks to Moscow streets and then just went “oops, we surrender”.
This may not seem important for many people, but they also participated on Azeri side in NK, guaranteeing Armenia breaking away, and tried to use force in Baltics leading to them breaking away.
I guess the reason they surrendered was they saw what their actions in such a short period of time caused, so wanted someone else to take the blame.
It’s not all black and white, of course. If not for 1993 coup (because Yeltsin did just that), Russia itself would still be technically very Soviet (weird enough, more so than under USSR where party organs would bear power which on paper belonged to Soviets ; so - somewhere in 1989-1993 what was on paper almost became the reality), which would make its foreign and domestic policy different from what happened IRL.
Russia shall either be a superpower or have Pizza Hut. It cannot have both. History shows to us that this is as an absolute truth.
Now if it could just go all the way-
I think a lot about what could’ve been if USSR embraced Deng style reforms.
World would be very different, the USSR would be THE most productive country on earth considering it had a head start on China even with the massive destruction caused by the nazi invasion.
Also i think that the USSR foreign policy ultimately did more damage than good to the communist movement worldwide, the chinese mutual development through trade is a much better policy. But then again, without the USSR foreign policy i think the Cuban revolution would’ve failed.
I do think that Chinese approach is more productive as well.
Hahahahah
The text is from August though, what new info does it mention?
well since then Russian industrial activity has continued to grow https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-factory-activity-grows-fastest-pace-over-six-years-sept-pmi-2023-10-02/
Oh, I would expect so, just wanted to confirm what the initial link was about
This is where Russia should be.
Well yes ! that’s what an economy of war will do. until it doesn’t
Except Russia’s nowhere close to being a war economy right now.
The source is some random site that adds more than a trillion to the usual estimate because of the “informal economy”. So they claim Russia has a trillion dollar corruption/black market lol.
I understand critical support for Russia, but all this uncritical support with zero critical thinking is lame.
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship. Just because they oppose the US doesn’t mean everything else they do is good as well.
Russian now spends a whole 40% of state expenditure on security and the armed forces. That’s not a good sign for them.
fascist
how?
reactionary
yes, unfortunately
dictatorship
every country is a dictatorship of one class over the others
Ticks a lot of the fascist boxes for me, mandatory nationalism and historical revisionism in school, the whole All-Russia “Young Army” National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association, massive internal security rosgvardia, claiming other countries belong to them reminds me of Lebensraum etc.
All countries in Europe have historical revisionism in school and most of them aren’t fascist (yet). The government may have started implying that Ukraine should have remained part of Russia after the escalation in 2022, but in practice, it was very determined for Ukraine to remain intact (including a semi-autonomous Donbass) up until that point, naively believing that Germany and others would actually pressure Ukraine to uphold Minsk 1 and 2. As for nationalism, there are plenty of non-fascist countries with a very nationalistic population
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship
People will now resort to label any country that opposes the west as a dictatorship (and not in the marxist sense), even if it openly celebrates bourgeois elections every 6 years.
Inb4 “but they are rigged!!1!”
So are they everywhere else, either by limiting by design the choices (see: USA) or by limiting the powers that democracy grants to the people. You seem to be Swedish: you cannot even choose your own head of state.
Edit: my country constantly suffers from scandals every election in which governing parties shove thousands of fake votes by mail into the system and no one has ever called it a dictatorship simply because it is part of The West™.
We should be better than the people who swallow western propoganda without every questioning it. Believing everything with lousy sources that is pro Russia just makes you look silly and contrarian. Critical, not uncritical support.
Lots of bootlickers ITT. Why defend war criminals?
Is this actually your first time stumbling onto a lemmygrad thread in 5 months??? Lmao
any war crimes committed by Russia pale in comparison to Ukraine’s, not to mention NATO as a whole
Russia is in Europe?
somebody failed their geography class
Eurasia (Europe and Asia)
75% of Russia’s population lives in Europe. Not only that, but even if we don’t count the Asian part of Russia, the European one would still be biggest and most populous country in Europe.
What is with you people constantly trying with the “dastardly Asiatics” dogwhistles.
OK if Russia is divided with one part considered Europe and one part of considered Asia then it makes sense. I always perceived Russia as Asia.
Do you have a link to an authorative source that clearly defines the line that divedes Russia into its European and Asian parts?
Pretty much every geography atlas. In relevant area it’s Ural mountains and river. Definitions might vary a bit at the south, the river is not always acknowledged, but regardless of definition it won’t change anything in my previous post.
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