• TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah I remember them mentioning that a bunch of productive state owned enterprises got privatized and sold off to capitalists who then shut them down for being insufficiently profitable, resulting in mass unemployment, which also is incredibly awful.

      The reunification seems like one of the the biggest non-war related disasters of the 20th century.

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          Yeah, I can’t think of anything in modern history that feels like it set humanity as far back as the Soviet Union and allied socialist states collapsing.

          EDIT: also, sorry if it sounded like I was trivializing the other collapses, I’m just not as familiar with them.