How was this fucker not ousted when he tried pulling this shit? Was the Soviet Union doomed by the time Gorby took power, or what? Seriously, how did this liberal gain control and dissolve the USSR? Did he even want to keep the USSR around like he “claims” nowadays?
USSR with liberal characteristics
Tyler Miller
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Landon Sanders
He hooked up Politbureau on pizza.
Mason Barnes
Kevin Flores
there was a coup against him, but it failed, at that point the party was filled with highly educated people who would be benefited from capitalism, so there was simply no will to stop liberalization within the party, this is ultimately why vanguards suck long term
Chase Cruz
dominos > pizza hutt
Carter Morris
it works in Cuba and DPRK still. you just have to get it right.
Brandon Ramirez
both of those live right next to an enemy that wants them turned into atomic dust, so any slight revisionist is seen as an infiltrator and quickly gotten rid of, stalin, hoxha, and all the others with this same policy were in the same situation more or less, this is an attitude that's literally imposible otherwise, as all other nations without this enemy turned revisionist, or got rebelled against
Josiah Rogers
Revisionism had been building in the USSR for nearly 30 years by the time Gorbachev took power. He was a symptom, not the cause of the Soviet fall.
Isaac Myers
The USSR did have that enemy though. That is what is so disgusting about Cornman's "peaceful coexistence," it denied the whole reason for the USSR to maintain the DOTP.
David Rogers
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Landon Lewis
t. liberal with no idea about how the government of the soviets worked
Leo Richardson
Dugin tells how in great detail in this book
Asher Brown
based
Matthew Morgan
So the conclusion is: either you'll have Stalin/Hoxha-tier totalitarianism and repression of free speech, or revisionism. Not a great case for vanguardism.
t. ☭TANKIE☭ who actually believes the ussr was a flawless workers' democracy where opposition wasn't shut down after reading a grover furr article
Adrian Brown
Gorbie's reforms are not what brought down the USSR. They only hastened what was inevitable by that point.
Joshua Garcia
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Isaiah Howard
A major factor in Soviet collapse was the fact that by the 80's, the leadership in the Kremlin was largely composed of technical intelligentsia who were seeing their incomes stagnate in comparison to technocrats in western countries. This gave them impetus to change the system from socialism to capitalism (from the top).
Economic factors included corruption, mismangement within enterprises, lack of foresight in national economic plans, failure to automate and computerize the planning systems, and finally the liberal reforms under early Gorbachev.
Politically, Gorbachev wasn't necessarily the one responsible for Soviet collapse all on his own. In fact, he rather preferred to keep the union intact, as a truly voluntary federation of states under a more democratic form of socialism. He failed in that, obviously, but in doing so he fostered a large capitalist opposition by implicitly admitting the failures of the Soviet economic system and damaging the legitimizing myths of the CPSU.
Anthony Ward
Logan Hernandez
Joseph James
Brayden Cruz
The USSR didn't fall
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Joshua Campbell
Fucking kek.
Also
Hunter Hernandez
That's doesn't make sense in Russian.
Samuel Stewart
The october of the world, no? (I am still a beginner at Russian).
Austin Anderson
It also translates as October of peace.
Parker White
Yeah, the word for peace and world in Russia are the same…
Camden Anderson
you should be automatically banned when you use liberal buzzwords
Noah Thompson
>totalitarianism
>noun
Easton Reed
therefore nazi = commie checkmate stalin.
Cameron Richardson
Мировой Октябрь would make sense in this context, not Октябрь мира.
Noah Taylor
Ha, gayyyyyyy
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Nazistan was totalitarian tho.
Anyway, stoping the purges was the moment true USSR died.
Nicholas Adams
Ah, I see you're a man of Cockshott as well.
Nathan Turner
DPRK has a hereditary ruling family which allows rulers to be groomed to govern and will always benefit more from keeping their power in a Communist state than just being rich in a Capitalist one. Plus he has a whole mini-leader cult around them so they can kill off all the potential Gorbys and traitors with impunity.
It's a pretty great system. We need more Communism with Monarchist characteristics.
Connor Brown
You have no proof of this. Your "hereditary monarchy" consists literally and entirely of a father, a son, and one more son. The first leader being a decorated revolutionary leader who successfuly secured North Korea, and the second just happens to be related to him, with the third following. The first leader is entirely understandable, without even the littlest knowledge of any history at all. So do you have any reason at all to believe that the second and third were chosen as a part of a hereditary monarchy? Where is your proof that North Korea isn't democratic?
Pro tip he has no proof because he is either a shill or just indoctrinated.
William Bailey
I am no longer so green as to spout “DAE North Korea are ebil feudal demons xDD” but to play devil’s advocate, there have been plenty of dynasties that only put a few men on the throne (Orleans, Bonaparte come to mind) and the Kims have notably had several family members killed which is a bit too familiar