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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (40 children)

The soviet economy was insane(ly good)!

https://youtu.be/Hcl3R-yARX8?si=Z2Us5pkG9a7FBPUw

Well sourced easily digestible video on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You're going to need to show that you have a serious understanding here or you're going to need to stop posting on the topic in this comm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

People generally need some validation but I think you're making an inaccurate generalization

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, do you have private statements or writings where he was secretly supportive of it? Or are you operating entirely divorced from historical research?

Also:

Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33]

Ignoring this bit i see

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wikipedia has a capitalism supporting bias and says this

Like Lenin, Stalin acted modestly and unassumingly in public. John Gunther in 1940 described the politeness and good manners to visitors of "the most powerful single human being in the world".[6] In the 1930s Stalin made several speeches that diminished the importance of individual leaders and disparaged the cult forming around him, painting such a cult as un-Bolshevik; instead, he emphasized the importance of broader social forces, such as the working class.[33][34] Stalin's public actions seemed to support his professed disdain of the cult: Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33] Walter Duranty stated that Stalin edited a phrase in a draft of an interview by him of the dictator from "inheritor of the mantle of Lenin" to "faithful servant of Lenin".[6]

A banner in 1934 was to feature Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but Stalin had his name removed from it, yet by 1938 he was more than comfortable with the banner featuring his name.[35] Still, in 1936, Stalin banned renaming places after him.[36] In some memoirs Molotov claimed that Stalin had resisted the cult of personality, but soon came to be comfortable with it.[37]

The Finnish communist Arvo Tuominen reported a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin himself at a New Year's Party in 1935, in which he said: "Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our patriarch, life and sun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied to him in those days] – Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speech made to that genius this evening."[38] In the beginning of 1938, Nikolai Yezhov proposed renaming Moscow to "Stalinodar".[39] The question was raised at a session of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Stalin, however, reacted entirely negatively to this idea and, for this reason, the city retained the name Moscow.[39]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality#:~:text=Stalin's%20opinion%20of%20his%20cult,-Like%20Lenin%2C%20Stalin&text=In%20the%201930s%20Stalin%20made,such%20as%20the%20working%20class.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There is no such thing as unbiased

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Communism also failed to fend off capitalism - and before you say b-but actually the USSR lasted a really long time,

The USSR being couped didn't stop it from sponsoring revolutionary movements around the globe until the coup. The US still hasn't defeated places like Cuba. In this sense the project still lives on.

ask yourself if the USSR at any point actually lived up to the ideals of the revolution.

Yes, in many ways. In some ways it did not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which international media? I'm guessing you mean media based in the US and US allies if you're anti-china

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

You can't educate your way out of the logic of capitalism. These folks are optimizing return on investment, not human utility. The system is working as intended, why would they change it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"You criticize society yet you live in it, curious"

Also the US didn't have the first internet type network

And there isn't slave labor in China

You're living in an alternate reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Practically, unless you’re working to make changes, and I mean real changes, then all you’re doing is making memes and trolling.

I am actually! Now go join a socialist org and help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay, well, you're wrong, capitalism is a mathematically unsustainable system.

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