ROMANOVS REVENGE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ROMANOVS REVENGE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Charles Sanders
Joseph Campbell
NOOOO MULTINATIONAL PEOPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION DON'T EAT THAT TRASH FOOD IT'S POISONED WITH C A P I T A L I S M
Colton Turner
The doctor vs the candy shop owner
Oliver Kelly
Luis Ortiz
i think you meant drogs, my friend, russian dogs
Alexander Reyes
Cooper Cook
But this joke doesn't work because everyone was required to work in the USSR so there were no "dregs". The requirement is part of why they were "ebil commies" to liberals.
Angel Ross
You’re a brainlet if you don’t think there were drug addicts and alcoholic dregs in the Soviet Union. Working doesn’t nullify this
Henry Wood
people still have to work to get by in socialism, you brainlet. There's no propping up. Everything is paid for by people's work. The difference is, the value taken from you is paid back in services completely, whereas under capitalism a portion of that value goes towards some brainlet getting another yacht.
Also,
Wow, such a great economic system. No wonder 66% of Russians want the old system back.
Carson Wright
thanks for accepting this fact
Nathaniel Stewart
...
Lincoln Smith
Yes and?
Brayden Roberts
Yes.
Zachary Jackson
Fitting.
Oliver Rogers
Sounds exactly like Russia in 1914
Easton Martin
SU was imperialist as fuck
Colton Price
The Warsaw Pact was founded to defend the socialist countries of Europe against NATO. It didn't increase Soviet "control" over these countries except insofar as it helped give a legal basis for military intervention.
Because Khrushchev tried to get rid of Hoxha, whereupon he allied with China and echoed Chinese polemics that Khrushchev and Brezhnev were revisionists representing a party that had restored capitalism in the USSR. They also accused the USSR of being an imperialist power, and of turning the Warsaw Pact into a means of "enslaving" Eastern Europe. So when the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia took place, Albania formally withdrew from the Pact (although it had de facto stopped participating a few years earlier.)
I haven't read up on the Nazino Affair so I can't comment.
What does "empire" mean in this case? I'd say no, since the USSR was neither expansionist nor imperialist. Having a bunch of allied countries did not make it an "empire." It's a word used to demonize the country.
David Wright
What would you call the soviet invasion of poland, georgia, afghanistan, the baltics, azerbaijan and others? what would you call the sovietization and suppression of the local cultures that it invaded?
Camden Baker
necessary
good
Matthew Ramirez
The USSR occupied two regions that Poland had forcibly annexed in 1920, hardly an invasion.
The local soviets being overthrown there and the reds intervening to restore them isn't an invasion.
The government requesting military aid against reactionaries is not an invasion
Again, pretty much the only reason there were capitalist governments there is because the German army overthrew the local soviets when they invaded in 1918
Jaxson Hughes
But the opposite occurred user