• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Well of course. He was a Russian Asset “Krasnov”, and had tens of millions of dollars in loans from them. And he’s always been open about admiring Putin.

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 days ago

        Not to forget about sex services and human traffic from ex-soviet states. His wife Melania is a slovenian model that happened to imigrate to the US. When soviet empire collapsed, a lot of young women wished to leave it whatever the cost is.

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          1 day ago

          One tiny nit: Yugoslavia wasn’t a Soviet state or a member of the Warsaw Pact. It was nominally non-aligned, though Tito would often cooperate with the USSR.