freedom* and democracy**!
*for nazis
**gays and homeless children need not apply
Love to advance freedom and democracy by spending decades overthrowing democratically elected socialist leaders and replacing them with brutal fascist dictators.
Freedom is when you install Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and send assassins across the borders of East Berlin.
Democracy is when you do military coups, and the more coups you do the more democratic it is.
Endless war was what kicked off the Soviet Revolution. Some of Stalin's smartest plays involved standing back, regrouping, and not getting bogged down in endless guerrilla wars with aimless dissidents.
The entire world was running on fumes, and only the US still had industrial infrastructure with which to launch global war. Stalin did what he had to do in order to secure the revolution in his lifetime. And he succeeded in handing a Soviet bloc that persisted for two full generations after his death. The Soviets made a lot of mistakes, but ending the war in '45 was not one of them.
Freedom is when you die cold, hungry, and sick on the streets because basic needs are put behind a paywall.
Democracy is when you* get to vote** for one of two corporation-approved candidates who won't dare to step on the freedoms mentioned above.
*from 1945 to 1965 "you" did not include black people
**votes are subject to various forms of disenfranchisement including gerrymandering, and byzantine systems like the electoral college
