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drewcoo on April 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Sub...

Something about smirking Ronnie helping Yeltsin transition to "democracy" so that the US could "invest" told me that the Cold War was over.

You do realize they're not communists anymore, right?

dragonwriter on April 7, 2023 [–]

> Something about smirking Ronnie helping Yeltsin transition to “democracy”

Reagan’s term didn’t overlap with Yeltsin’s term at the helm of either the Russian Federation or the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, so I think your memory is confused.

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