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Isn't a vice president in the US just a backup incase the president croaks? Do vice presidents have any real power?

After some more reading it seems this isn't a decision by the EU but the members of the Bern Convention which the EU members are just part of. Some African and American countries are also members of that.

As for decision by the EU: only decisions effecting trade between countries seem enforceable, internal policy can't be forced by the EU on member countries, it's a choice to adopt EU laws. Like for example the EU copyright directive was passed in 2019 and only 4 member states chose to adopt it to this day.

Does the EU even have the authority to rule over stuff like this? I'm pretty sure they don't and this decision will have no impact on the policies of the member countries.

Claiming the USSR only sent fascists to gulags is ridiculous. Like a good example is my grandmother and her 6 kids, my mom included. The oldest kid was 10, a bit young for fascist. My grandmother and mom were the only survivors. My granduncle escaped that fate by hiding in the mines of kiviõli. Their crime was being jewish.

Also gay communities were regularly dubbed fascist for being gay here. Several Estonian writers and artists were sent to gulags as well. Jaan Kross for example was arrested by both the nazies and soviets and held in the same secret police building both used. Though he was later sent to a gulag where he was for 10 years.

The USSR committed horrible atrocities but they weren't as bad as the nazies, obviously. No idea why I have to clarify this, I never even mentioned the nazies.

I have no idea why ML always jump to double genocide when anyone mentiones bad things the soviets did.

An ML not knowing what double genocide theory is is equally unsurprising. It's the claim that the USSR committed atrocities to a similar scale as the nazies. I never even mentioned the nazies.

Many gulags were forced labor camps, also known as slavery.

Yea, the first link was just how people felt like a while ago when a lot of ex soviet countries were still struggling over a decade ago. That would make sense too, if an economic union collapses your country is fucked for a while. Like if the EU collapsed it would have even more severe consequences and any poll would give similar results for decades to come.

I don't know why they would vote for socialism suddenly during the votes for independence. If Russia couldn't do that with 60 years of killing, imprisoning, slaving and deporting political dissidents, artists, scientists, gays, jews and people not ethnically russian than a referendum for independence ain't gonna make socialism happen either. I guess giving people the ability to vote was rather new but yea, it didn't make socialism happen either.

True, if you wanna play games with really high requirements you need to cough up mu h more than 700 euros, I'm just saying the Steam Deck is better value than a PlayStation.

You mean the vote that was boycotted by 6 of the 15 soviet occupied countries due to how it was phrased among other things? There was no independence option in the referendum, just how should the USSR be preserved.

Also most of the Easter European countries voted to declare independence shortly after.

I was around 20 at the time and in one of the boycotting countries. We later had a vote for independence, I think the support was around 80% or 90%.

Except the bottom picture is Singapore...

Or a steam deck. The cheapest option for that is like a bit under 400 I think and it doubles as a PC while having a massive library of games plus emulation.

Calling the USSR Marxist is an insult to Marxism. Especially what Stalin made it into. Hearing how people claim that was Marxism would have Marx rotating in his grave so bad it could generate power for the whole world.