• fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    So, let me clarify, you could’ve wished for a proper communism without state and such bullshit, but wished for an autocracy with ambitions of world domination to be undissolved? Great job here, mate!

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      The Soviet Union was working towards Communism, if it wasn’t dissolved then Humanity as a whole would be a lot farther along in the transition to Communism globally. The Soviet Union was not an “autocracy,” nor did it have “ambitions of world domination.” Such claims come from Red Scare nonsense.

      I recommend you read Blackshirts and Reds.

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        19 days ago

        Sure it wasn’t. And, say, attempts to limit citizens’ freedoms of [speeh, movement, religion (although I personally think it’s cancer)] or even music they listen to are just a coincidence. Look, I’m not saying USSR was all bad, but, frankly speaking, trying to depict it as some kind of heaven on earth is just as flawed as the red scare you’ve mentioned.

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        19 days ago

        Youre totally right. west germany built a wall to keep people from running away to the communism utopia next door. Wait a minute…

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      20 days ago

      Idk, I think it would be a net positive for the world. As the dissolution brought a few bad things with it, like child prostitution, alcoholism on an international scale, drug abuse, corruption on a never seen before scale, and just in general things became a tiny bit worse for an average person. If anything, we do have an autocracy with ambitions of world domination brewing (ie Russia) as a direct result of the illegal dissolution. In all honesty, would be better to wish that the liberal economics reforms were never adopted, that ideally would keep things at bay.