• Chay@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism worked under Eastern aggression

    Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.

    Communist economic sanctions, Communist covert actions

    The projection lol

    and a propaganda apparatus far more widespread than anything from the West.

    As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer "You've got a good propaganda machine!", the KGB officer replies "Well, yours is unbeatable."

    The CIA agent responds with "What propaganda? In the West we don't have propaganda."

    • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Keep crying, tankie

      Your shitty dictatorships failed because they were orders of magnitude more corrupt and dysfunctional than capitalism, and even more oppressive towards the general public.

      • krolden@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        So are you saying Putin is a not shitty dictator? He's definitely not a communist and he's still in charge of Russia.

            • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              They're both auth dictator scumbags who steal from and oppress the people. Dictators are dictators. Left or right, the only difference is exactly who they want to kill. The Soviets oppressed and occupied Eastern Europe and Putin wants nothing more than to do the same.

              Thankfully, Putin is less capable than Stalin, so Russian fascist rule isn't as terrible as Soviet communist rule.

              • krolden@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                So all those price controls under the soviet Union were just them oppressing their citizens?

                • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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                  1 year ago

                  The plenty of the Communist bourgeois and the deprivation of the common people certainly were. The Party members could drive Mercedes if they wanted while the regular people could only dream about a Lada, could enjoy fancy French wines while the common people wait in bread lines, and meet over cigars while the common people were deprived even of the benefit of union representation, as all unions were turned into agents of the state.

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            1 year ago

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        1 year ago

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