• dustycups@aussie.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Anyone old enough can remember when Boris Yeltsin was stumbling around, drunk as a skunk & the other russians would pretend that everything was fine.

    Now its your turn USA - and remember what came after Yeltsin

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      1 hour ago

      Russians also describe 1990s Russia as an economic wasteland where all of Russia’s wealth and resources were gathered up by oligarchs. So yeah, pretty apt analogy.

    • Redfox8@mander.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      At least he didn’t have his own media outlet… “hic, I order a radio broadcast, …right now!.. I know it’s 2am… I want… I want the bestest, geatestest … USSSSSR… sSSR… I want the moon on a stick! Yes! …Hic… Give me it. Give ME the moon, NOW!.. What? No! I dshidn’t just Shay anything if the sort…yeh, the shmoon, moonsss, moonsess. Wodka? Oh loveshly thanksh…now what’s was I sayinsh?..”