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Yeh sure but they did the same and worse 80 years ago and are still fine. Russian women er pretty amazing.

• ipv6ipv4 4y ago
  It distorted Russian society in ways that are still felt today. So no, it wasn't still fine.
• cosmodisk 4y ago
  I'd argue about the "are still fine" part. My country was under soviet occupation. We were so behind that it's beyond scary. A plastic bag with Bruce Willis or Stallone's face printed on it was something out of this word. I'd argue that by the time the whole darn thing collapsed, we were 20-30 years behind the western world.
• rippercushions 4y ago
  80 years ago Russia was defending against an actual invasion of actual Nazis, instead of inventing fake Nazis as a pretense for invading.
• sofixa 4y ago
  Is Russia "fine"? They still haven't managed to catch up economically or in development levels to the developed Western countries (and the fact that former Eastern bloc and even Soviet countries have shows that the gap wasn't impossible to overcome). They're also in a war they cannot win losing tens of thousands of men they can ill afford to lose, and only because they're stuck in the past politically and geopolitically.