I’ve heard some stories from friends of mine (mostly Romania and Poland, which is not the USSR, I know), but it turned out (I wasn’t so sharp on the timeline) that they were between sth like 2 and 9 when communism fell. And it’s still interesting to hear these stories, but when I think about my views and knowledge of the world when I was 6, I don’t come up with much that’s worth listening to. So I appreciate meeting someone who remembers the USSR!

Were you politically active? Was that possible at all? Did you have a strong opinion on Gorbachev? Did it change in 1991?

I haven’t found a reason to say anything.

How can you verify that someone is of age without the problem with privacy?

That’s the neat part!

For context, what OP means by “cleaning” webcomics is removing artist attribution. Look through their post history. And the answer why people don’t do this is clear: because it’s an unbelievably shitty thing to do.

Tell me you’ve never been homeless without telling me you’ve never been homeless