The cost of these revolutions was millions of premature deaths

By Paul Cockshott's estimates., the former USSR has seen 10-12 million extra deaths in the 30 years following the illegal and antidemocratic dissolution. It's really a total war scale of destruction and misery, a terrible humanitarian crisis.

A lot of these stories are of people fleeing the devastation caused by neoliberal shock therapy and capitalist revolution in post-Soviet states.

Bulgaria peaked its population with about 9mn during socialist times, nowadays they've lost a third of that and are at 6.5mn. What a wonderful way to completely hollow out multiple countries. Also millions of Poles, Czech, etc fled the misery created by capitalism. Hakim has a powerful video talking about the demographic crisis of Eastern Europe.

Libs will tell you everything about their compassion and love for poor and heroic Ukrainians, but Ukraine has been the poorest European country for 2+ decades, causing millions of premature deaths, and nobody gave a single flying fuck for the people who had to endure that. My Ukrainian coworker to this day doesn't like to eat noodles because for a period of her childhood her father was unemployed and they literally couldn't afford anything but that.