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Why didn’t you stop it you LIB

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was literally a baby, what was I supposed to do? Googoo gaga at them?

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

With a whole life ahead of you and you didn’t even think to intervene? Even more pathetic honestly

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

I WAS LESS THAN A YEAR OLD meow-tableflip

[-] Zoift@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So was the newly born Russian Federation. It would have been a fair fight

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Who would win? One smol baby owl, or one former super power?

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Does the smol baby have a T-80?

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Uh you could have pissed on them. I would expect you, the pissiest owl, to have known this.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

You're also an owl. Could you even fly yet? Even if you could what would you have done? Left a bunch of mouse skeletons on Yeltsin's front stoop?

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

Googoo gaga

you would've reanimated lenin

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

taps the sign FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY, DIRT_OWL

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Same. I was in a premie tank at the time.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have a childhood memory of my parents and grandparents huddled around the TV watching coverage of the how the USSR was dissolving, so I guess it was around Christmas 1991. I kept trying to get my dad to look at a toy or something, then he said something like "not now, this is important." I asked "what is it?"

He said something like "This means there's not gonna be fighting in the world anymore. All the Russians are dying." And for years I literally thought America had stopped an alien invasion or something (I was a dumb kid and had no idea what the USSR was until I was like 10)

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago

"This means there's not gonna be fighting in the world anymore. All the Russians are dying."

what-the-hell What the fuck michael-laugh

[-] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Take bets on if my child brain didn't understand what he said or if my dad thought Russians were going extinct

Third guess is that he didn't quite know what language to use to describe dissolution of a country to a toddler. My dad is not an eloquent man

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Looking at mortality rates he wasn't wrong about the last bit. Life expectancy fell like 10 years or so

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

I was calling my parents libs the whole time it was happening but they just thought I was hungry for some reason, or would change my diaper

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Only legit excuse here. Thank you for your service

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

I was about 6 months old and busy exploring the house despite my parents attempts to cage me.

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Not a legit excuse, ban this guy

[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

FREE THE CHILDREN

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago
[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

a true revolutionary like Stalin would've taken his lil baby legs to gorby's office and overthrew him smdh

[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

I once saw an alleged """leftist""" say that communism was better off now that the USSR wasn't around to split the left.

So I guess I let it dissolve to help global communism because now we have nothing to argue about

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

at the time politicians were spewing bullshit about a "peace dividend", wonder why that never showed up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend

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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

A was born on 4/20/69

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure I said 'no' at some point during the day the USSR fell so I did my part.

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

fedposting I see exactly what you're doing lol lmao even don't even try I definitely wasn't exactly 3 year and 224 days old when it happened. Nope, not at all, good try though.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

i would have done something but i was too busy fighting against the sandanistas for the cia

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

I was less than a week old when it happened.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

literally a week where decades happened

[-] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

You showed up and the USSR immediately broke, pretty sus if you ask me.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Eat shit 35 year old users of this website with a suspicious birth year

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

This website ~~needs age verification so that we~~ can ban everybody ~~who was alive before the dissolution of the USSR~~

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

This website ~~needs age verification so that we can~~ ban[s] ~~everybody who was alive before the dissolution of~~ the USSR

Because you're all libs lmao

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sorry. I was too busy on my speak n spell and thinking the space shuttle was pretty cool and dinosaurs existed?!

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[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I was too busy stopping the disolution of the other AES states. You really think it was only the USSR that was supposed to dissolve in 1991?

[-] Finger@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

no more half measures walter

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Look, what could I, a humble diplomatic attaché assigned to the US embassy in Moscow, have done at the time to stop it?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Something very funny the-doohickey

[-] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

If you were born in '88 then you're no comrade of mine

[-] IsThisLoss@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

was busy eating mud

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago
[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Listen, I would have, but Barney provided insufficient light arms training. You can't crush the rising tide of reaction with hugs and clean up labor equity unfortunately.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

FBI data gathering op right here ☝️

illuminati

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[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

I did it. I was there and drove a stake into the corpse of Lenin, thus dissolving the Soviet Union.

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

born pre 1990 i agree with this post ban me please get me out of here im a celebrity

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But I need the boomer energy, I need more people who arent into the tik toks

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