According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.

  • iByteABit [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Thank you for taking the time to write this, it’s very sad how bad things have been for the simple Russian people.

    There have been articles and statistics showing that Russia had massively improved during the USSR and declined after its fall, and I struggle to find out what is true and what’s false due to all the propaganda by both sides, that’s mainly why I’m interested to get opinions from actual people. In any case it’s criminal for the people to live in constant fear of expressing a disliked opinion and being taken away to labor camps overnight.

    • vlad@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      The reason that USSR looks good in metrics is because it was a unified nation with clear goals and everyone was forced to contribute towards those goals. And out of necessity the government provided the bare minimums that a person would need to continue to contribute to that whole. But there was absolutely no choice.

      So, obviously once that rigid system is torn down, and people no longer have that access to necessities, things get worse. It’s just wrong to thing that going back is the right direction to go.