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World/Foreign Affairs / Re: The Battle over East vs West (Russia vs Europe) continues in Ukraine
« Last post by patentlymn on Today at 07:58:04 PM »I have some curiosity about how the USSR fell and what happened after. Lots of looting after.
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Latvian state railways are asking to be exempted from sanctions to able to buy parts from Russia and Belarus for their trains.
The ironic thing here is most regional and commuter passenger trains in the USSR were made in the Latvian SSR, at the legendary RVR factory (like the one pictured above). These trains were the backbone of Soviet urban networks, exported all over the communist bloc and still heavily used by post soviet countries, Latvia included. After independence, Latvia was quick to privatize and dismantle the plant, and now they can't even repair the trains they used to built.