• Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    The military must be subject to a civilian government worker's party

    a mistake of the USSR was apoliticizing the military. China still has their army under the party.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Soviet military was not apolitic, but it was subject to a civilian government, and when civilian government went counterrevolitionary, military tried to act in August 1991, but weakly and indecisively, which resulted in abject failure.