Do you miss the CCCP?

@BlueMetalChick No. Millions of people were killed by starvation intentionally. Millions suffered and died in forced labor camps. There is no silver lining.

@helenS My comment was three sentences long and one of those sentences was "they mistreated their people." Read more carefully next time before you repeat what I just said.

@DownTheRabbitHole It reminds me of the situation with China and Mao Zedong. In spite of how many millions of people died because of his actions, he's still widely idolized by Chinese people.

@DownTheRabbitHole Those things were rectified for the other ethnicities too, however possible. Degrees of success were related less to ethnicity or republic - but more to how rural/remote the areas were situated. By and large standards were fairly equal.

@DownTheRabbitHole Georgians lived entirely too well for that to be the whole story 😂

@QuixoticSoul Georgians are some of the most impressive dancers in the world.

@DownTheRabbitHole No, Georgians were just operators, they had a reputation for cultivating connections and getting shit done. And nobody had it easy under Stalin.

Anyway, RFSR was consistently #4 in individual consumer income and general quality of life, nor did it hoard federal investment.

The Baltics lead the way on both, strangely enough.