But they never had millions of people suffer in freezing weather because one of their states didn’t want to incorporate its electrical grid with the feds and because the private companies that ran the power plants decided it would be more profitable for them to shut down in the middle of the worst storm that this country has seen in like 50 years
Stalin wrote Proclamation 12, declaring that the entire Soviet Union was to be fueled by Ukrainians. Over 80 million Ukrainians were used in lieu of coal, which was deemed more valuable.
Stalin wouldn't have put up with this shit. The whole Texas government would have already been given new "postings" in Alaska and the new administrators would be working hard getting the power back online. :stalin-stressed:
We’ve got plenty of walls down in Texas no need to make our problems Alaska’s problems lol
They even built a big and beautiful one that will look good to broadcast the events on
Anchorage is teeming with Texans and Fairbanks has a few too. Or so I've heard.
Chernobyl actually shows to what extent they were willing to go to avert disaster.
About the tv show, is it watchable or filled to the brim with anti-communist propaganda?
It's an entertaining show if you're able to turn off your brain and just enjoy things and not get frustrated at the revisionist bullshit. I enjoyed it for what it was worth, the actors all did a great job, but there is definitely moments where you'll be like, "come the fuck onnnnn"
The issue is how serious they take it, unlike some other media where it's not all that serious (Death of Stalin for example.) I think you should try to watch it and just go in knowing it's propaganda and typical American media doing the red scare bullshit.
I thought it's watchable. It has its good moments but the overarching theme is inevitably "communism= bad". It's a good exercise for sporting framing and training yourself to see how opinion is shaped and reenforced. It's not a history show so there are liberties and in these gaps you'll see how they slip in the anti-communism. Like the show will tell you that the design flaw was covered up and kept secret, which is an absolute lie. The design shortcomings were openly discussed in Nuclear engineering circles for years before the accident. With all that I still I say go for it.
It's filled like 3/4 the way with anti-soviet propaganda. But they don't go quite as far out of their way to say "USSR bad" as I expected them to.
And that's despite the fact that Siberia was part of the USSR
I mean its pretty close https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-19-mn-511-story.html
This is about fears of power shortages, not ones that actually happened. And it's in 1991, when the USSR was literally falling apart. So not even a little close.
It reads like the propaganda it is, too:
Faced with the danger of energy shortages, many republics and cities, Moscow included, have drawn up contingency plans for shutting off power to factories and offices to conserve it for residences, officials say. But those measures may be woefully inadequate.
"The Commies make plans to take care of people in case of crisis! But they'll probably fuck it up."
Ok but america is falling apart now, so I see no problem with the comparison.
That the Soviet Union, by some estimates the world’s No. 1 producer of energy, is menaced by such shortages underlines the extent to which the state-run economy has withered away without leaving anything in its place. Politicians, too, are keenly aware of the dire consequences if large numbers of citizens, who already worry about potential famine, must live in cold and dark homes as well.
:deeper-sadness:
Capitalism is when no electricity
What's the historical context for this article? Does it come from after the USSR broke up or before?
