30 years ago, on this day, Kazakhstan declared its independence, becoming the last country to leave the Soviet Union.

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  1. Kazakhstan in Europe? Ok geographically they have a tiny part of their country lying in “European” borders but still is this enough to be considered European? Also terrible quality image

    For me all the -Stan countries are part of Central Asia tbh

  23. I’m still just saying that if different people had been in power Kazakstan could have continued acting like they were still the USSR after the collapse.

    Think about it, Kazakstan would have Veto power in the UN since the soviet union would still technicalöy be a thing

  25. Interesting to note that most of the Post-soviet countries did worse economically than they did under communism

    https://knoema.com/infographics/aiykgj/30-years-of-reforms-in-former-ussr-is-the-market-economy-helping

    > However, the global economic power of the former USSR countries, measured by share in world GDP, was cut nearly in half — from 9% to 5.3% — between 1990 and 2019.
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    > The Baltic states, which integrated into the European Union, have achieved the highest standards of living among FSU countries, based on per-capita GDP. However, the loss of 15% to 28% percent of their populations, which is beyond what can be explained by demographic trends alone, raises questions about these countries’ economic achievements.

    Also [this](https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1470492667884851202)

    > 6 So to summarize (leaving Stalin etc out, in order not to complicate matters further) we have the average per capita income in “Euroasia” growing at:
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    > 1.6% pa during the last ~30y of Tsarism
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    > 2.1% pa during 18y of Brezhnev’s “stagnation”
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    > 0.8% pa during 30y of “new capitalism”.

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