1. You are a citizen working in a factory.

  2. You are the General Secretary.

What would you have done from both these perspectives?

  • HarryLime [any]
    1·
    4 years ago

    Exactly, they only had to hold out until the 2010s! The Soviets lost faith in their ideology because they expected another great depression after WW2 and underestimated the resources of the capitalist world to keep the system going, but the systemic crises they were waiting for is happening right now!

    • kristina [she/her]
      1·
      4 years ago

      like my opinion is big things like great depressions only occur due to massive outbreaks of diseases, they didnt have anything super huge outside of maybe polio post ww2. like if coronavirus happened pre ww2 i actually think it would have been worse than the spanish flu

    • weshallovercum [any]
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      4 years ago

      The Soviet Union didn't collapse due to "loss of faith in ideology", it was straight up dismantled by opportunists.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        4 years ago

        The opportunists got their opportunity to dismantle the union because the ideological coherence and faith was deeply shaken in many sectors of the Party and some sectors of society by the mid 80s, a phenomenon that started with Khrushchev's secret speech. It's why Gorbachev had the political capital to take the Union in a revisionist, capitalist direction.