Why were they so good at sports but Russia is so shit?
More doping
You are aware that the USSR was Russia plus prety much all of eastern europe right?
>>68509136
It was meme countries like Ukraine and Latvia. They barely add anything. The core of the team was still Russians.
Russia is not shit. They're mid tier, around the same level as, say Sweden and Ireland.
>>68509157
which 'soccer' team has won most ussr championships
>>68509101
Superior infrastructure and funding.
My guess is the indoctrination. In the communist USSR the Soviet athletes were raised to believe that they were the most perfectly bred, trained, and engineered athletes in the world.
Modern day Russia is still learning to cope with capitalism.
Didn't you see the Rocky IV training montage?
Imagine that but across all olympic sports.
Let's take a look at all those magnificent US hockey gold medals. Grass diving is not our national sport, barely anyone cares about football in a country where everything is covered with snow for 6 months a year. You can find more adult Russian men interested in figure skating than football
>>68509101
Because the USSR didn't fuck around while modern Russians are now mostly alcoholic skinhead losers
>>68510544
>damage control
You're just bad at everything.
>>68509101
all their best athletes are from the regions
Basketball: Lithuania
Football: Ukraine
Boxing: Ukraine/Kazakhstan
>>68509101
Soviet super-scientists hadn't cooked up krokodil yet.
The Soviets won hockey medals because the Olympics were amateur-only and the Soviets pretended that all of their best players were amateurs.
Everything else was the product of a combination of doping that is now more rigorously tested for and massive state support that no longer exists
>>68510510
irl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5wEEFfer0
Putin is obsessed with trying to look cool instead of his own country. Most autistic manlets are like that though.
doping resources were kinda equal, now the US and China have way better doping while Russia is lagging behind
>>68510544
so whats the difference between your hockey medals and our basketball?
>>68511473
The difference is that USA is the best in the world at basketball, and Russia is the second best at hockey.
>>68509101
larger country +central planning
