Membership talks cannot progress until the former Soviet state cleans up, a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky
  • DEAD_YUCKY [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Membership talks cannot progress until the former Soviet state cleans up, a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky

    LOVE THE SPRINKLING IN OF ‘SOVIET’ HERE AS IF THE CORRUPTION COMES FROM ITS SOCIALIST PAST

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      I’m sure that is how it was intended, same for the sentence:

      Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

      But the way I read it and I think the way those of us who actually know about what went down after the dissolution of the USSR, people who know what capitalism is, read it as “immediately after capitalists took control, corruption inevitably became rampant.” In other words, the truth of the matter.