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What is your deepest desire right now? (lemmy.nz)
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[–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Well whatever, the whole Soviet thing didn't really go very well

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It ended really badly, but how did it not go very well during it? Honest question here.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It devolved into authoritarianism with Stalin.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Authoritarianism doesn’t really mean much. And according to the US (through the CIA) itself, Stalin-era USSR was more democratic than appeared in western media.

    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

    But in any case, even if that was the case, it wasn’t “authoritarian” after Stalin. Like y’know, most countries after WW2 (not just Italy and Germany btw. Or people forget Churchill and FDR, and the “war economies”? The internment camps, jailing of “political dissidents” etc. etc.).

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