[throwaway3060]

Soviets who murdered millions of people.

Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?

[cess11]

It's obviously better to live under genocidal occupiers than being helped towards independence by a less genocidal federation, I see that now.

[throwaway3060]

Less genocidal federation? That is quite the claim.

The Soviets starved millions of people to death, in order to secure their control. All that help was then built on the backs and blood of those victims. At least let's be honest about that much.