For real, the lack of aggressiveness after WWII by Stalin (shouldn't have stopped at Berlin) set a terrible stage while wielding a great hand, we could of at least moved the borders of AES significantly which, who knows, could hardly be worse than the current state of things
The soviets had known almost nothing but continuous war since 1914. I get the sentiment and the politics, but it seems cruel to tell two generations of militant revolutionaries that their grandchildren should continue marching and fighting and killing and dying for a world none of them will get to actually enjoy.
The Soviet Movement began as a Global Peace Movement. A rebellion against all the senseless slaughter of Crimea and Russio-Japan and the Congo and the Eastern Front.
At some point, they couldn't just be an economy of death. They needed to build something better.
For real, the lack of aggressiveness after WWII by Stalin (shouldn't have stopped at Berlin) set a terrible stage while wielding a great hand, we could of at least moved the borders of AES significantly which, who knows, could hardly be worse than the current state of things
The soviets had known almost nothing but continuous war since 1914. I get the sentiment and the politics, but it seems cruel to tell two generations of militant revolutionaries that their grandchildren should continue marching and fighting and killing and dying for a world none of them will get to actually enjoy.
The Soviet Movement began as a Global Peace Movement. A rebellion against all the senseless slaughter of Crimea and Russio-Japan and the Congo and the Eastern Front.
At some point, they couldn't just be an economy of death. They needed to build something better.