That would be a naive reading of the history of the USSR.

senderista · 2026-09-26T23:14:51

Yeah, weren't subway stations in the USSR dual-purpose nuclear shelters?

Dylan16807 · 2026-09-27T00:07:02

I think you're talking about something else. Not all that much risk of self-nuking.

macintux · 2026-09-27T00:24:19

Well, Chernobyl...

lostlogin · 2026-09-27T00:33:19

I think I’m missing your point?

The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?

hdgvhicv · 2026-09-27T01:49:18

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

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

nephihaha · 2026-09-27T07:44:15

Czechoslovakia was never in the USSR. It was Warsaw Pact. Same with Hungary.

The Warsaw Pact was the eastern bloc's answer to NATO. They were also in Comecon, their version of the EEC.

Not to be confused with Comicon.

Isamu · 2026-09-27T01:44:06

Op is probably referring to the history of conflict between Ukraine and Russia specifically, for example when Ukraine lost its war of independence against the Red Army. Stalin purged Ukraine quite thoroughly then by starvation.

lostlogin · 2026-09-27T08:38:26

For sure Russia oppressed Ukraine. The Holodomor was genocide.

The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.

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

pseudohadamard · 2026-09-27T07:42:49

No, but they did everything else: Engineered famines (the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Holocaust), gulags, and mass executions (Khruschev's first major job, being Stalin's liquidator in Ukraine).