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I know you mean the Russian Federation, and not Russia in general, but the USSR was one of Palestine's biggest supporters, and supported groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One tragic time capsule from 1967, opened in 2017, had a student state jealousy and hope for the end of war:
Reading some of those time capsules is a gut punch. I know some were naïvely optimistic, but some are painfully ironic:
Some places now are going backwards in this respect. We have the means to eradicate measles. We had a devastating global pandemic with a catastrophic handling in the US just a couple of years after the capsule opened. If it's any consolation, the few current communist states handled it well.
Not only are there modern Nazis back in the region at war, but many countries, most famously the USA, are fighting a resurgence of fascist-like reaction at the highest levels of power.
Indeed, it is deeply tragic to read the hopes and dreams of these young Soviets. The dissolution of the USSR is one of the largest tragedies impacting modern geopolitics, I can only hope in the future there will be a return to Socialism in Russia and the other former soviet states.
Do you have the link of these time capsule notes?
There are a few articles about it, as many were opened, but here is one that includes the cited capsule.