▲ 114 ▼ What is your deepest desire right now? (lemmy.nz) submitted 3 years ago by chrizbie@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 152 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) It devolved into authoritarianism with Stalin. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] novibe@lemmy.ml 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.). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 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.). permalink fedilink source parent