• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      12 days ago

      Sadly, it’s a very old trick for local governments which want to ‘look good’ to their superiors.

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        12 days ago

        I was gonna say, this isn’t unique to the USSR, or even to openly authoritarian states. It’s the oldest trick in the book, it seems :/