I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.
I don’t know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.


The loss is slightly offset by state-level changes such as a small increase in projected business tax revenue, but the net result is still a loss of about $621 million in general fund dollars. The decrease tips the 2025-27 biennium into negative territory, with a projected general fund deficit of $373 million.


This could work if you live in Venice or something, but i meant *taking* damnit


It’s good to have a critical understanding of RT’s viewpoints. In this case, like the other user said, it’s Trump driving his own wedge (per usual), so ofc RT will run an article on it.


Under capitalism, kayaking the time to get to know your neighbors is revolutionary behavior. When things go sideways, the people in direct geographic proximity to you are going to be the ones in best position to support you (and one another). It’s best to start laying that groundwork asap.
Being involved in wider activism is also a grounding and fulfilling. You don’t need to join a revolutionary socialist party like PSL (but you can if you want to go hard), even joining a park cleanup day or something like that is a good place to be.
I didn’t want a mod tag next to all of my posts, and Lemmy doesn’t let you disable it.
Yeah this isn’t my main account
Hey, haven’t used this account in a while, figured I got demodded, but if there’s a need I can fire it back up. I think the instance admins have things under control in general.


As long as it’s in the form of a question
Thought it would be helpful context but I couldn’t say much about it besides the fact that I’ve never heard of such a practice, myself
What part of the world are you from?
Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren’t able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don’t know enough to comment much further).
I don’t agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries “for them”. It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.
I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.