Quotes complied by Historian Domenico Losurdo in his work 'Stalin'
We come across railway lines that aren't on the maps.
Honestly, really based, ominous, and foreboding. The Fortean Left gives this quote a 10/10.
mfw no enigmatic abandoned Soviet rail line to follow into the Urals
:train-shining:
I mean they're just Slavic untermenschen, how hard could it be?
4 years later...
:pit:
There's an apocryphal story that a Soviet general was being shown a German tank factory during the cooperation under the Treaty of Rapallo. He asked to see the heaviest German tank and was shown the Panzer IV. The general, knowing that the USSR was currently developing the much heavier and well armored KV series, assumed that the Germans didn't want to show him the good stuff and filed a complaint with the foreign ministry that the Germans weren't holding up their end of the bargain.
The entire history of socialism hints at the inevitable development of a form of industrial capacity beyond the comprehension of modern capitalist theorists
From the Soviet war economy, Cybersyn, to modern Chinese developmentalism we've only ever glimpsed the vaguest outlines of this thing, and I suspect if it ever becomes fully realized as an historical movement, we'd see a shift in human relations and development magnitudes greater than what took place during and after the first industrial revolutions
Isn't this just China right now? Americans, British, etc. don't believe almost anything about China.
It's like if the U.S. lost the entire east coast up to the appalachians and decided to just fuck off to the midwest and still rebuild all industry in like a year
It was equivalent to the US losing all industrial capacity east of the Mississippi River and all agricultural land west of the Appalachian mountains. The death toll the USSR suffered would have killed 1/6 of the American population
:pit: "Noooo! You can't just build a massive industry in just 3 decades! It's impossible!" :stalin-joking:
hold on, let me check :very-smart:
literally everyone who has ever existed according to Victims of Communism foundation :very-intelligent:
Obviously Stalin waited for the Order ideology tenet "Worker's Faculties" which cuts factory build time in half and provides extra science per factory.
I like how in Civ 6 they dropped the pretend game of obscuring the ideologues with names like “order” and “autocracy” and just straight up name the ideologies Communism and Fascism.
But somehow Liberalism still gets an obscured name “Democracy”
The game makers removed “ideologies” but they still huffing ideology
Is this like, on paper? How'd you get a paper copy of this book in English? Very jealous.
I got my English language copy off libgen.rs, I assume it's still there.
Yeah that's where I read it too, but this looks like an actual physical book. Maybe they just printed it out? idk
