>>509560855>>509560907He's right though, Ukrainian ssr was the center of trade and commerce, and therefore enjoyed better access to western goods, higher incoming foreign capitol, which translated to higher investment in infrastructure and education (especially political education, MGU might have had better vocational classes, but shevchenko definitely had the better liberal arts programs, which as a result is where the majority of the central committee were educated).
Kiev was also where the majority of foreign and domestic diplomatic summits were held. I'm not going to go full banderite and pretend like it wasn't entirely done by Russians living in kiev, because it obviously was, but kiev was basically to Moscow as Constantinople was to Rome. It was absolutely the center of government and power from 1960-1991
And for nightmare of bureaucracy that the late soviet union had, at least there was a relatively unified government that could accomplish it's directives in some flawed fashion, instead of the completely chaotic and contradictory legal/political system of the current Russian federation, where literally nothing gets done unless it's some utterly retarded crony capitalism like telling rkn to block YouTube in an act of blatant favoritism in order to help out the oligarchs running dogshit like rutube.
t. Russian boomer