the ussr had problems, mostly of complete incompetency in people in positions of power in the party from the top down from the ~1960s onward.
Online anarchists comparing it to fascist states is a bit insane. The worst (which this is horrific to be fair) you can point to the genocide of the Crimean Tatars who were accused of working with the enemy (same excuse Turkish gov used to genocide the Armenians), which the USSR later apologized for in the 50s.
e: actually i forgot about afghanistan, also quite awful for both the conscripts sent to their meaningless death, and the thousands upon thousands of civilians the ussr killed through indiscriminate bombing
Because these people are mostly young people from north america and western europe, raised on post-cold war propaganda, and can't comprehend anything more socialist than a liberal democracy welfare state with a socdem party in power
The american backing was not in the beginning of the war. There were effectively 2 afghanistan's, the people in the city and the rural people.
When the soviets tried to impose mild secular reforms they had back lash from the rural farmers.
Also the entire war was just soviet conscripts slaughtering civilians because they are far far worse off in terms of training / culture compared to american solider.
Also Afghanistan was hardly a socialist state,'it em was basiclly a corrupt plutocracy that served as a puppet for moscow. Which is shown when they literally assassinated the head of state which helped descend the country into chaos
I thought it wasn't the soviets doing the mild secular reforms, but the guy who became head after the Saur revolution. Sparking actual backlash which he met with purges against them and the more Soviet-minded members of the revolution. However Brezhnev was flip flopping and hands off so he tacitly backed the leader
the ussr had problems, mostly of complete incompetency in people in positions of power in the party from the top down from the ~1960s onward.
Online anarchists comparing it to fascist states is a bit insane. The worst (which this is horrific to be fair) you can point to the genocide of the Crimean Tatars who were accused of working with the enemy (same excuse Turkish gov used to genocide the Armenians), which the USSR later apologized for in the 50s.
e: actually i forgot about afghanistan, also quite awful for both the conscripts sent to their meaningless death, and the thousands upon thousands of civilians the ussr killed through indiscriminate bombing
A lot of these dorks really tell on themselves when they paint all socialist countries as worse or more imperialist than Canada or Sweden or whatever
Because these people are mostly young people from north america and western europe, raised on post-cold war propaganda, and can't comprehend anything more socialist than a liberal democracy welfare state with a socdem party in power
Was the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan a bad thing? They were defending a fellow socialist state against American-backed religious extremists.
I'm dumb and unread so maybe I'm missing the bad part? Was it in how the war was executed?
It was utterly incompetently handled, at the very least. A truly useful intervention would have looked very little like what they ended up doing.
The american backing was not in the beginning of the war. There were effectively 2 afghanistan's, the people in the city and the rural people.
When the soviets tried to impose mild secular reforms they had back lash from the rural farmers.
Also the entire war was just soviet conscripts slaughtering civilians because they are far far worse off in terms of training / culture compared to american solider.
Also Afghanistan was hardly a socialist state,'it em was basiclly a corrupt plutocracy that served as a puppet for moscow. Which is shown when they literally assassinated the head of state which helped descend the country into chaos
I thought it wasn't the soviets doing the mild secular reforms, but the guy who became head after the Saur revolution. Sparking actual backlash which he met with purges against them and the more Soviet-minded members of the revolution. However Brezhnev was flip flopping and hands off so he tacitly backed the leader