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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

What do you mean? This is just US2023

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

yes!

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This just proves Gorby was dumb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.