When was making my feature-length documentary film in 2007 on the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union and how America reacted, I had the opportunity to int...
Prague was 68. You're thinking of Hungary. And well to be honest once the uprising began there wasn't much the Soviets could do. Either intervene and have western communist parties call you a tankie and abandon communism, or let it happen and risk counter-revolution across Europe.
Oh right, i got the sequence wrong. But, no prague was a bad thing without lots of equivocations, hungary was more dodgy, cause there were lots of groups there. If kgb was more like cia, they would have just make sure that non-capital affiliated group prevailed.
But i mean, listening to lots of podcasts, tons of western commies decided hungary and prague were too much and decided to do their own thing. While in usa its a whatever, in italy or germany - its consequential
implodes all commies interrelations by shitting on stalin.
That's pretty reductive, I'm not the most scholarly guy on the split but I think not giving nuclear weapons to the chinese mattered more than the stalin question
Activates kosygin like a boss, decides to compete on treats with usa, crushes prague and implodes all commies interrelations by shitting on stalin.
Prague was 68. You're thinking of Hungary. And well to be honest once the uprising began there wasn't much the Soviets could do. Either intervene and have western communist parties call you a tankie and abandon communism, or let it happen and risk counter-revolution across Europe.
Oh right, i got the sequence wrong. But, no prague was a bad thing without lots of equivocations, hungary was more dodgy, cause there were lots of groups there. If kgb was more like cia, they would have just make sure that non-capital affiliated group prevailed.
But i mean, listening to lots of podcasts, tons of western commies decided hungary and prague were too much and decided to do their own thing. While in usa its a whatever, in italy or germany - its consequential
That's pretty reductive, I'm not the most scholarly guy on the split but I think not giving nuclear weapons to the chinese mattered more than the stalin question
Oh i haven't meant sino soviet split, more the following appearance of non-aligned movement, as they saw "nor moscow" as imperative for their survival
I don't think that had anything to do with stalin
But it had to with krushchev