Can be applied to any ballticks.
“Surely THIS round of neoliberal shock therapy will propel us to greatness” I say as I remove the last of my tendons with a flensing knife. The shareholders weep with joy. I am so enviously streamlined.
Do you even know what happened to the Baltics under the USSR, or are you just spewing nonsense?
I’m not denying the 90s were brutal, but don’t twist that pain into “therefore the USSR was a good thing”. The collapse being a shock doesn’t erase what the occupation did to us, the Baltic states, or what people lived through under repression.
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he USSR was objectively a good thing and you’re free to return to 90% illiteracy and a 40-something life expectancy if you feel otherwise
The Baltics were already way ahead of russia on both life expectancy (which was already on par with a rapid global and regional improvement trend) and literacy before the soviet invasion+annexation.
The best one can realistically say is that the soviets didn’t completely fuck up these two metrics and trends for the baltics.
Honestly the USSR collapsing just shows how fragile that system was. And yeah the 90s were rough for basically everyone post-Soviet, but the Baltics clearly played it better long term. Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania have way higher QoL, better schools, actual functioning institutions, more opportunities, etc. Meanwhile Russia went the oligarch + authoritarian capitalism route and never really recovered socially. So ‘it got worse’ is true short term, but long term they absolutely upgraded.
No, it showed how important fossil fuels, especially oil, were in the 20th century.
That’s gone now.Oil revenues propped the system up, but when prices fell the underlying institutional failure showed.
This is your brain on neo-liberalism. Read books, kids.
Jblog didn’t provide any sources, can I ask outside of the quips the counter critique to this line? You don’t have to explain anything, just some links, articles, etc
