After the fall of the Soviet Union, a whole host of European countries were faced with a unique opportunity: the chance to free their economies and clean up a corrupt legal system. Of all the ex-Soviet states, few have been as successful as Estonia.
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Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
The Truth About Growing Up in the Soviet Union | Guest: Gia Jandieri | Ep 269
The country of Georgia is a beautiful place of rich traditions and a unique wine-making culture, but like so many countries, its individual character and history were nearly wiped out by the enforced homogeneity of the Soviet Union.
I am an optimist by temperament, but you need not share my personality to feel good about the future. You only have to look at the data.
Trump didn’t kill American politics, he just capitalized on its death. We did this.
Somewhere on the book of feces I encountered comments that could be summed up by “Communism wasn’t that bad and the US is worse for those people at the bottom than communism was”. There was also mention of how under communism everyone had a job and housing was free...
The physical personification of the oppression of the Soviet Union was the concrete wall that separated East and West Berlin.
Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Herr Hitler. The Fuhrer got a terrible rep as a genocidal tyrant but in terms of 20th century murderous tyrants he is—at best—in the top 3. The same in fact goes for things like ecological and economic mismanagement. Fascism a.k.a. National...
In the early 1970s, the Soviet Union decided it was time to start producing electric guitars. Better late than never, I guess.