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    1 year ago

    Huummm… thanks Russia? And not the CIA? Why would Russia be responsible for people hating socialism?

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        1 year ago

        It ended really badly, but how did it not go very well during it? Honest question here.

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            1 year ago

            Authoritarianism doesn’t really mean much. And according to the US (through the CIA) itself, Stalin-era USSR was more democratic than appeared in western media.

            https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

            But in any case, even if that was the case, it wasn’t “authoritarian” after Stalin. Like y’know, most countries after WW2 (not just Italy and Germany btw. Or people forget Churchill and FDR, and the “war economies”? The internment camps, jailing of “political dissidents” etc. etc.).