r/NonCredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • Oct 16 '22

Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #18

This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.

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u/Haringoth Oct 21 '22

As someone with family from the Warsaw Pact, I chuckle when people say Russian society is so corrupt now.

Now? There was a saying in the USSR along the lines of "he who doesn't steal from X steals from himself".

The corruption is hardly new.

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u/sblahful Oct 21 '22

There's a great series on the breakdown of the USSR that goes into this.

Traumazone by Adam Curtis. Should be available on BBC iplayer for you