Five@slrpnk.net to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months agoRussia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putinwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down10
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minus-squarevlad@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThey ran a shitty corrupt government, tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed, renamed themselves to “Russian Federation”, and are now trying to recapture lost states while feeding people into a never ending meat grinder.
minus-squaresenseamidmadness@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoI don’t see how modern Russia is still the USSR. Could you explain?
minus-squarecobra89@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoPutin is desperate to restore Russia to its former USSR glory. That’s why he wants Ukraine so badly.
minus-squareArkham@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-27 months agoI feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well
minus-squarejava@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months ago tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed How so if it was indeed occupied for years?
what it has todo with USSR?
They ran a shitty corrupt government, tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed, renamed themselves to “Russian Federation”, and are now trying to recapture lost states while feeding people into a never ending meat grinder.
I don’t see how modern Russia is still the USSR. Could you explain?
Putin is desperate to restore Russia to its former USSR glory. That’s why he wants Ukraine so badly.
I feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well
How so if it was indeed occupied for years?