Moderate71
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These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered.
Is the Soviet Union actually a success story of Marxism?
No, no, no....
These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
The people of the Soviet union were indeed unhappy and the system was atrocious, but there was evidence of success.These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
Unfortunately, stalin didnt cause the problem, Lenin did. Stalin and his 5 year plans are responsible for the brutal but effective rise of the USSR from 3rd world to super power, but his paranoid rise to power was thanks to Lenin who consolidated power by killing off all his fellow revolutionaries.WW2 took a heavy toll on the USSR and they didn't get money from America to rebuild, like the western-European countries did. Had their been no WW2 or Stalin, things may have worked out differently. It was a good opportunity gone to waste.
These videos and the article I linked dispel the myth that the people in the USSR were unhappy and suffered. Also, I've read that the reason the USSR failed is because of a combination of USA sabotage and internal flirting with capitalism. The main reason, however, was Gorbachev betraying Marxism and implementing aspects of Capitalism. Also, it did survive over 70 years.
Also, it seems most Russians want the USSR back, except hope for an implementation of Communism that doesn't betray the teachings of Karl Marx.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
Except all of these "communisms" were all started by a single man crowning himself supreme. It seems none of these countries tried communism which eventually turned into dictatorships.... they were dictatorships from the start.Except it wasn’t only the Soviet Union. It’s been anywhere communism has been tried: China, Cuba, N. Korea, etc....
The experiment has been run numerous times, under all sorts of various conditions. The results always seem to be the same: economic stagnation, tyranny, and corruption.
It was an interesting thought. Maybe there are elements of it that can be salvaged. But to think that the original idea still is viable is foolish at this point.
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The ussr was failing since the 70's, they still remained a massive military power until they collapsed and contributed much to science and technology, but their collapse was happening before gorbachov. The problem with a high end central govt is that the top does not know how to rule the bottom, they see numbers and take little care in evaluating each situation, while medium and small govts like many other nations had allowed governing at all levels to account for each challenge. There was also massive corruption in the soviet union which the kgb uncovered in the 70's, on paper atleast to what the soviet leaders knew the ussr was near utopia, however many local members were fudging the numbers to look good, and the kgb found out when doing their missions when reports of prosperous siberian town xyz turned out to be people dying of starvation and communist party members pencil whipping the numbers to look good.
After the kgb uncovered the heavy corruption, it was already too late, communist leaders before and up to gorbachov tried to end the bleeding which they did not know even existed until the kgb discovered it and tried different methods to salvage it. In the end it was far from utopia, at best it worked liked feudalism, it was functional and allowed wartime and peacetime control of resources, but was unable to compete with other systems unless no other system existed or they were in a state of nonstop war where other systems would be unable to function.
Except it wasn’t only the Soviet Union. It’s been anywhere communism has been tried: China, Cuba, N. Korea, all the countries of the former Soviet bloc, etc....
The experiment has been run numerous times, under all sorts of various conditions. The results always seem to be the same: economic stagnation, tyranny, and corruption.
It was an interesting thought. Maybe there are elements of it that can be salvaged. But to think that the original idea still is viable is foolish at this point.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/0415389577/ref=mw_dp_cr
Except all of these "communisms" were all started by a single man crowning himself supreme. It seems none of these countries tried communism which eventually turned into dictatorships.... they were dictatorships from the start.
Syria calls itself a democratic republic. Does that mean you believe it is a democratic republic?
The people of the Soviet union were indeed unhappy and the system was atrocious, but there was evidence of success.
They failed trying to compete with a goliath over the #1 spot, but at the beginning of the project they were essentially a 3rd world agricultural monarchy. If they had taken their time and fed their people instead of exporting everything for the good of the motherland at the expense of the people (sounds like facism), it may have been a resounding success.
The KGB found Soviet corruption? They pretty close to invented it for God sake.
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