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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

tito-laugh USSR didn't dissolve in Cyberpunk universe.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

It just liberalized. USSR stands for Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and they're just as infested with megacorps as the rest of the still-habitable parts of the planet

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes of course, but what i was referring to was this line in the game about how a liberal socdem 'USSR' still manages to be better than the U.S.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

And in CP2077 Yurop all citizens are legally entitled to real vegetables in their diet. Murikans get kibble and high-protein bacterial colonies.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? This is just US2023

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

LOL would the Russian version of this new name even translate to USSR?

[-] Ananasova@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yes!

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) = Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР)

Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (USSR) = Союз Суверенных Советских Республик (СССР)

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's funny because the SSRs already had the legal right to secede lol. Why change the name?

[-] Ananasova@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

The idea of "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" is taken from real life. It was an attempt to reform Soviet Union into less centralized federal system. They wanted to give it a new name but also save acronym (USSR/СССР). This replacement never happened because of August Coup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty).

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

This just proves Gorby was dumb

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I remember reading a chip about how the USSR would implant criminal's brains inside of bulldozers and stuff and use them for construction gayroller-2000

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

It was created by a lib so they still made it evil

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

:yea: however, atleast in the game its shown that USSR has better living standards than US like free healthcare, education and shit. In game version of the U.S. is basically ancapistan (not that different from real life ig)

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Strictly speaking Pondsmith wrote it as if Gorbachev's plan had worked out like Deng's instead of leading to liberal/fascist coups dissolving the USSR. He's got some absolutely galaxy brained takes and ideas but as far as libs go he's weirdly endearing.

[-] Ananasova@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

they replaced USSR with Ukraine ("між Польщею та Україною")

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ukraine getting their own special version with completely different lore is really funny and also a little sad when you think about it too much.

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