It was established in 1922 as a union of four socialist republics created after the 1917 October Revolution, namely the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR. The years that followed saw the addition of the Uzbek and Tajik SSRs; the Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved in 1936 in favor of the elevated SSRs of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. From 1956 to 1991, the union comprised 15 member republics, two of which had their own member seats at the United Nations.
The USSR represented a groundbreaking political alternative for the working class as the first stable socialist state in history. This was remarkable especially in a time period where workers in the Western world were still struggling for basic union rights; the 1924 Soviet Constitution and the 1936 Soviet Constitution represented some of the most progressive political advancements in history.
The Soviet Union developed under extreme pressure from capitalist states and global imperialism; during the Russian Civil War, starting from 1918, it suffered successive invasions by Britain, France, the United States, Japan, Poland, and several other minor European powers. Some of these interventions temporarily succeeded in overthrowing local soviets and installing anti-communist puppet regimes, although they were ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the founding of the Soviet Union.
Barely two decades later, during World War II, the Nazi invasion represented the second imperialist war on the USSR, this time in the name of fascism. Although the fascists inflicted catastrophic damage on the western USSR and its population, the Red Army ultimately succeeded in repelling the Nazi forces and went on to play an integral role in the defeat of German Nazism in 1945.
Despite these difficulties, the Soviet Union achieved some of the most impressive economic developments in modern history. Socialism transformed a country of illiterate and starving peasants into an industrial superpower with one of the fastest growing economies on Earth. The Soviet people were one of the world's best-educated and healthiest populations, responsible for some of history's most impressive industrial and scientific achievements to date. And it provided a very influential model for other later socialist projects in places such as China, Cuba and Vietnam.
Starting from 1988, many SSRs seceded from the USSR before its illegal overthrow in 1991. Its past territory is now occupied by the successor states of Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Pridnestrovie, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Artsakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
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Maybe it's cause I dont like TOS. And I know it's mainly low hanging lib softballs but but does George Takeis posting put anyone else off?
You should never read another post by any celebrity but you should give TOS another chance
I still feel great about this takedown I wrote on him after he wrote an article about concern trolling people with a conscience for voting for Genocide Joe.
poc liberals who should know better are generally offputting. Dude wrote about how is family was interned but still asks you to vote in the most important election of all time (TM) and that hes being targeted by Russian bots.
Kinda, but also he's old as hell and had been relatively rich for a good while, he's for sure off the mark but he seems too genuinely sweet for me to care that much. It's not like he has much influence. Also I do like tos, so that could be part of it.
Yeah. I started following his page when endorsed Bernie in the '16 primaries up until he, or more likely someone on his social media team, decided it'd be great to post an article about how great Israel's military technology is. By then I had fully shifted from a two state solution lib to Palestinian liberation and it was pretty disgusting to see that being posted. Especially someone who was interned during WWII. But it shouldn't have surprised me given how he talks about America like hello_hello said.