Wow, Poland is closely following Russia now - police refers a 14 yo to family court because he... shared a post about women's rights protest 🤦♂️
@kravietz although this maybe sounds like "tinfoil hat" stuff I'm genuinely worried about a "New Warsaw Pact" where the more authoritarian EU countries, Russia and Belarus all work together to create a socially conservative/theocratic bloc of countries but with high tech industries (which rest of EU is heavily dependent on for things like cars)
@vfrmedia And yes, this is silly because the key "conservative" activist organisations in Poland - like Ordo Iuris - were benefiting from "convervative" funds in Russia run by people such as Konstantin Malofeev. A number of nationalist politicians in Poland (Korwin-Mikke, Wilk etc) are also supporters of "getting closer" with Russia, visited occupied Crimea etc
PiS might not last for ever though, or they could U-turn (just like British government repeatedly does).
Also even at height of Cold War UK and USSR were working together, tech and money is often exchanged (the Virginmedia/NTL cable system here uses equipment originally developed by the Soviets in the 1980s for their cabled propaganda broadcasts (if you look inside a cable box that kids have busted open you might even see the writing is in Cyrillic on some equipment!))
@kravietz Soviet cameras (Zenit) were also very popular with young photographers in the 1980s, often being the only affordable SLR camera for their budgets..
@kravietz for hifi/radio equipment only by about 5-10 years, and in the West it was affordable there was a lot of USSR radios (particularly multiband receivers) and lower cost stereo systems that were way cheaper than anything British or Japanese and were quite popular in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.