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The Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Ended (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At the end of the day, there is a reason the USSR dissolved. Generally related to bread lines, gulags, all that fun stuff

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I disagree with the reasons you gave, feeding those in need didn't hurt the USSR and the GULAG system was abolished several decades prior to the dissolution of the USSR. It's ultimately a complicated issue, but one that I believe ultimately had to do with rejecting much of the world economy, which resulted in a form of Siege Socialism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Can we put the combined efforts of every capitalist market and oligarchy who's power has reigned uninterrupted since centuries before communism was formally theorized?

Or nah it was probably the.. checks notes ~~prisons~~ gulags, right glad those are gone.

Or the bread distribution? Yea didn't work for Rome either.