Infantile. Imagine if the USSR hadn't exported any grain during the 20s and 30s. No industrialization, no victory over nazi Germany, no USSR.
“The Soviet Union was anti capitalist”
Brody Bennett
Brayden Miller
Yeah, even in Lenin's lifetime an agreement was made with businessman Armand Hammer in which to set up a pencil factory to meet domestic needs.
Also:
(Source: Williams, Albert Rhys. Lenin: The Man and His Work. New York: Scott and Seltzer. 1919. pp. 103-106.)
On the role of Western technology and investments (including Pepsi) in the USSR, see pages 132-134 of the following work: archive.org
William Brooks
Offtopic but if you read Bulgakov you notice how Americanized Moscow felt during the NEP, and one of the first GAZ cars was a rebadged Ford , iirc, and there's also Togliatti.
And in general the Soviet people respected Westerners way more than the other way round, but that's anecdotal evidence.
Jonathan Parker
Basically everything you buy in a capitalist economy = porky profiting off of workers. If you want Pepsi in the USSR you could either
Be a consumer in a capitalist market
Or sit around and wait for the development USSR brand COMRADE COLA.
Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.
Aiden Price
Bro you just posted cringe. Only in Lenin and Stalin era SU was really anticapitalist, only after them Khrusev just started restavration of capitalism
Matthew Williams
Yea sure buddy
Ian Smith
It’s like poetry, here have a picture of Lenin’s house, not porky at all.
Ethan Phillips
Pragmatically, yes. If they did not immediately aquire some means of rapid industrialization, they would be destroyed within the decade. So it was either that or be like the anarchists and die within a few years. Does socialism matter so little to you that you sacrifice it wholesale to please your moral sensibilities?
Lenin barely lived here and it was not initially built for him, it was gifted to him after the Soviets took Moscow and seized it. The only time he spent here was when he was recuperating after being shot and when he was sick and dying. It was converted into a museum afterwords.
Leo King
State-owned and was also tiny compared to a Czar's Dacha.
Tyler Murphy
B-b-b-but tankies!!!
I thought that there can be no bad leadership in a "dictatorship of the proletariat"!
I thought that the state is merely exercising the will of the people!
It couldn't be that state capitalism is just regular "ethical capitalism" with a red coat of paint, could it?