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              I’d say that’s exactly when this map was made. Before the official reuninification but when the USSR was already falling apart, with these countries quickly becoming separate.

              It’s not a very good map no matter the exact time period

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                the countries were always separate within the union, it was a federation. they had their own flags and languages.

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                  Not really, they had separate flags but in reality they were completely subordinate to the central government. Local languages such as Ukrainian and Lithuanian were repressed.

                  Also they were named “Lituanian SSR” or “Ukrainian SSR” unlike on the map.

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    Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I’d also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft… I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it’s getting annoying.

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      I’m not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn’t afford it to be seen as successful.

      https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/

      Now it’s not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.

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        I totally agree and I’m not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.

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          Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn’t true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.