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33 years and 5 days ago, Soviet president Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled “gotcha” trip to a random American grocery store in bumfrick Texas. The story of how communism died before it could kill another 60 million.

https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-clear-lake

Superior link: https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php

Bonus video from the same year at mighty Moscow grocery store for comparison:

Also in 1989:

Soviets trade 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer for some Pepsi.


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Are you trying to actively scare stupidpol away smh


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Brother this is a default-sub-Reddit-thread from the height of the anti-Trump fervor years:

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/e3kvg0/til_boris_yeltsin_made_a_unplanned_stop_at_a/


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Point of personal privilege: the intelligentsia at stupidpol has determined that dunking on Soviets is the easiest path to achieving fully automated luxury gay space communism.


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Well, it’s a huge messaging problem, not just for commies, but for leftists in general.

Most people like where they’re from, they know the US isn’t perfect, but they don’t want to hear that their country and everyone they know and love should be pushed into the sea or “reeducated”.

If leftists could sound like they’re rooting for the home team once in a fricking while, maybe the working class would be more inclined to listen to what they’re saying.

But “leftism” in the US is just a cool-kids club for upper middle class angsty white and white-adjacent perma-adolescents. More than half of them don’t even believe in the shit in the first place, they just do it for clout on social media and then buy a baller butt house like Hassan.

Like Landback—you actually think these r-slurs are ever going to self deport to Europe?—Not that they would take them—but heck no, it’s just self deprecation to show what a superior person you are.

And it’s pretty lame because there are some things that could be improved that the majority of Americans agree on, but it’s culture war r-sluration all the way down.

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all the good stupidpol users are already here

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