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    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      Thinking about how Chomsky said the fall of the USSR was good while looking at these graphs

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        The USSR of the 1980s was not the USSR of the 1920s.

        Yeltsin's takeover was a fucking nightmare, but the theory that they didn't need a new revolution and some serious house-cleaning requires a seriously rose-colored rear view mirror. Gorbachev should have been evidence enough of that.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Nooo this has been knocking about on the internet for a long long time. I've used it so so much though because it's honestly brilliant at demonstrating what a power the very existence of the USSR was and what they provided to their population was in influencing global capitalist treatment of their own populations. I have no idea who the originator was I'm afraid.

        It is one of the strongest tools in my toolbox to demonstrate to cut through the bs in people's minds about the USSR.

    • Dyno [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Good graph. Does anyone have one from the old mod stickies from r/CTH that had both US and USSR food production on it? It was my favourite

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Of course FDR would never have been a thing if the USSR wasn't sitting there pointing out that a revolution can succeed.

    • Prinz1989 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Agree, it has much more to do with the aftermath of WWII. Same goes for Europe. People angry about "neoliberalism" need to understand that it is just capitalism returning to normalcy. Everytime a leftist says fight "neoliberalism" i cringe because it implies that there is a good way to do capitalism. It usually just sees politics as a giant conspiracy by the rich instead of a historical materialist analysis.

    • YeahISupportLenin [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      uh actually providing a comfortable life for a few hundred million people for 30 years of its 300 year long existence proves capitalism is the best economic system there is

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It was also the only thing keeping an average Russian/Eastern European persons standard of living bearable. Look at what’s happened since the coup.

    • p_sharikov [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      but but but the gdp! it's higher than ever so everyone must be doing great over there

    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      neutralizing 'fellow' US military members of your own accord

      dare I say, based?

  • fitterr
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    1 year ago

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