Discussion on Soviet Union and Modern Russia

The entire empire—

Don't interrupt!—

I told you not to interrupt me.

Veronika, Veronika wanted to. Irina—

The entire emp— empire of the Soviet Union was built

against American imperialism.

A ton of money was spent on creating

a nuclear belt, these long-range nuclear missiles, and

so—

a nuclear shield. Launching at Cuba, seeing who

could move missiles faster. People starved, but all the money went to

fighting the eternal enemy. How did it end?

Oil prices dropped, and the Soviet Union collapsed.

Now we're being offered the exact same thing.

All the money for military budgets, bristling against

Europe and America, who together with NATO are trying

to conquer Ukraine and Russia. All the money goes there.

Let the people starve, because we're true patriots,

we will fight

against America and Europe.

Are the people starving already?

We— yes, it's starving completely. You can see in the provinces what

is going on. And how will it end?—

But I haven't seen any food riots yet.

It will end in the collapse of Russia. Just

mark my words and play them back 15 years from now, and

you'll see what happens.

Yes, so that, so there won't be, yeah, because they love to replay us—

So no one can say later that nobody warned us.

Irina, but this collapse of Russia that—

You cannot create an external enemy.

Hold on, hold on. I understand.

We must direct all blame at ourselves.

Irina, I kind of, kind of forgot—

We are doing something wrong.

Do I understand correctly that Russia—

And Ukraine won't join us not because America is there, but because

we are doing something wrong.

Now I understand that.

And Ukraine doesn't like us.

Irina, about the Soviet Union and weapons, I didn't

understand.

Always constantly shifting all

responsibility off yourselves.

Irina, what if, what if we—

First America's to blame, then Europe's to blame.

Oh, that's a given.

First liberals are to blame, then Nazis are.

Irina.

Then fascists are to blame. And we're all in white.

Who are you to be all in white?

We're all in white.

You read books, don't you?

Yes.

Digging through other people's papers. Where's the conspiracy in that?

The fact that the bureaucracy has completely gorged itself.

There is no doubt about that.

Sitting on oil, pocketing it all. Behaving humiliatingly towards

other countries, degrading their dignity.

That's true. But still, excuse me, please explain to me:

if the Soviet Union hadn't

had nuclear weapons, are you saying that would have been a good thing?

It would have been a good thing if neither we nor they had them.

But they already had it.

And they did have it. So we created this shield.

Ah, so we were forced to after all.

We were forced to. But then the Cold War began,

which we all

lost.

And we were supposed to walk away from it, right?

We lost it.

Well, not us—let's just say we didn't lose it.

We didn't walk away.

One specific citizen betrayed everything, but that's another matter.

The Americans, waging the Cold War, fed their people.

That's true.

While we, waging the Cold War, robbed our people and lost the war too.

Although, it must be noted, we fed all of Eastern Europe.

You see? Even though we say America is to blame for everything.

So you're suggesting we surrender?

We— our elite is not competitive and doesn't

have

the historical honor to say, "We must

correct our mistakes." We read these

European documents and hide behind this fig leaf.

"Oh, what terrible Europeans!"

But, but we still need to look.

A conspiracy, a conspiracy! And we're so great.

But at the same time, so that the end of Irina Aleksandrovna's show is heard.

No. The total historical incompetence

of the elite.

Irina Aleksandrovna, once again. The Ukrainian people were not fooled.