05-16-2019, 08:42 AM
(05-15-2019, 06:38 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I wonder if things are any better in the other former Soviet Republics, most of which were also in Europe. He said they were better.
Didn't Moldova want to rejoin Russia, or Russia claim it?
More likely Romania, which held it between 1921 and 1940. Romania is by contrast an economic and political success story. The average salary in Moldova is equivalent to 298 euros in contrast to 996 euros in Romania as of 2018. Ouch!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.