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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And only socialism in Europe and Russia can offer a meaningful response to this.

I mean maybe, but that's utopian given that all socialism efforts so far where actually authoritan regimes using socialism as a label. We don't know whether it'd help, we have exactly zero data points.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Regarding the Ukraine problem in particular and the situation of Ukraine during socialism in Europe, I have already made a comment demystifying some of the most pervasive anticommunist, russophobic propaganda. Please give it a read and show me your thoughts :)

If you think my solution is "utopian", check out this data from OurWorldInData (hopefully a Bill Gates outlet won't be suspect of tankieism or pro-russian tendencies for you) for GDP per capita in Ukraine since the dismantling of the Soviet Union. Ukraine never recovered its soviet levels of production and of quality of life for people. The USSR was no utopia, it was a very real thing, and it was materially and significantly better for Ukraine than whatever options exist now.