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Their mock election was so realistic the school even played the role of the CIA (lemmy.today)

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Because the successor states are not soviet? Does it also include China, Cuba, the DPRK, and Vietnam? Come to think of it, the units don't make sense either.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago

Why would it contain them? The others you name are nominally still ruled by communist parties, and more importantly did not do the massive privatization the USSR did.

You see the same pattern in Yugoslavia, which also did the same privatization of previous state controlled industry . . .