I feel like an assumption I come up against a lot with liberals is that the USSR had basically the same ownership class structure and wealth distribution that similarly developed capitalist classes had. I tried Binging this but don't have a good sense of what authors to trust.
its complete bullshit and unabashed lies. the most powerful people in the soviet union lived in apartments and visited dachas the size of a suburban yankee home. the comparison is fucking comic.
literally just send this link whenever libs talk about this and laugh at them. amongst comrades we can talk about how its unfair for the servants of the people to skip line for champagne, but it may aswell be in a different universe from wealth inequality talked about from conspicuously unequal capitalist nations.
Reminds me of how liberals and western leftists were upset when a Vietnamese diplomat went to visit Marx’s grave and then dined at a fancy restaurant, paid for by the French host accompanying him
communism = no food. if a communist eats they are hypocritical corrupt party apparatchik :theory-gary:
personally as the one true leftist i was outraged that the vietnamese government funded a trip to Paris for a functionary whatsoever. what if they enjoyed themselves? this would be the end of communism.
and mind, when people say this , they imagine that "to be true to communism" every party member needed to be an ascetic monk. because hypocrisy is the only language of the liberal
The Death of Stalin gets a lot wrong (whatever, it's not supposed to be a documentary, it's funny), but it's great that they accurately show Khrushchev and Molotov living in these incredibly modest apartment flats in Moscow.
even that dacha stalin was living in is a fucking joke compared to the white house (which itself is modest compared to european state residences)