I can’t make it make sense to myself but it’s pretty fucking hard to ignore the instances of literal nazism in ukranian and other figures who opposed russia in WW2 and the continued support they receive.
I’m not going to pretend to know anything about the current war and I also don’t care so you can skip trying to explain it to me 🤷♀️
If ya’ll want to take a break from the memes here a good book. Irregular Army How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals
The relationship works as such… The USA is a brutal imperialist empire in decline. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Facsism is crapitalism in man made crisis and imperialism is it’s highest form. Fascist are really actually low level players in it all really. The issue is not the byproduct but the source… That source is the capitalist class.
I mean, a few idiots on one side doesn’t automatically make the other side right…
Edit: apparently it is the government who is doing that bad things. I was uninformed. Please stop calling me a Nazi sympathiser for not knowing about the bad things that the Ukrainian government did
It isn’t “a few,” that’s part of the problem. The entire reason the war is even happening is because the west helped install a Banderite regime after the 2014 coup, which caused Donetsk and Luhansk to secede, sparking a civil war where Kiev began ethnic cleansing against the Donbass region that voted for the former president.
The Minsk agreements could have avoided the war, but both were tanked by Ukraine and the west. Nazis were emboldened by the new Banderite regime. That’s also why Ukraine and Israel are such close allies.
Russia’s invasion has no good reason… Putin just wants to remake the USSR which won’t be good for anyone…
If only Putin was actually a communist. If Putin actually was trying to remake the USSR, then the world would be in a much better position.
The USSR had steady and consistent economic growth, and provided free, high quality education and healthcare, full employment, cheap or free housing, and fantastic infrastructure and city planning that still lasts to this day despite capitalism neglecting it. This rapid development resulted in dramatic democratization of society, reduced disparity, doubling of life expectancy, tripling of functional literacy rates to 99.9%, and much more. Living in the 1930s famine would not have been good, but it was the last major famine outside of wartime because the soviets ended famine in their countries.
Literacy rates, societal guarantees in the 1936 constitution, reports on the healthcare system over time, and more are good sources for these claims.
The USSR brought dramatic democratization to society. First-hand accounts from Statesian journalist Anna Louise Strong in her book This Soviet World describe soviet elections and factory councils in action. Statesian Pat Sloan even wrote Soviet Democracy to describe in detail the system the soviets had built for curious Statesians to read about, and today we have Professor Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance to reference.
When it comes to social progressivism, the soviet union was among the best out of their peers, so instead we must look at who was actually repressed outside of the norm. In the USSR, it was the capitalist class, the kulaks, the fascists who were repressed. This is out of necessity for any socialist state. When it comes to working class freedoms, however, the soviet union represented a dramatic expansion. Soviet progressivism was documented quite well in Albert Syzmanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union.
The truth, when judged based on historical evidence and contextualization, is that socialism was the best thing to happen to Russia in the last few centuries, and its absence has been devastating.
Death rates spiked:
And wealth disparity skyrocketed alongside the newly impoverished majority:
Capitalism brought with it skyrocketing poverty rates, drug abuse, prostitution, homelessness, crime rates, and lowered life expectancy. An estimated 7 million people died due to the dissolution of socialism and reintroduction of capitalism, and this is why the large majority of post-soviet citizens regret its fall. A return to socialism is the only path forward for the post-soviet countries. A lot of Eastern European countries were swarmed with western capital during the destruction of socialism, which is what temporarily caused the rise of the far-right in these countries, but in time their problems will no longer be able to be ignored.
What about all the famines that the USSR had and resulted in their people starving?
Also communism hasn’t ever worked for groups larger than a few hundred people, because of greed
Did you read my comment? I said the Soviets ended famine in a region where famine was historically common. Further, socialism worked in the USSR, and continues to work in Cuba, Vietnam, Korea, China, Laos, and Venezuela. Greed did not ruin any of these, greed is expressed in greater degrees in capitalist countries where profit is the goal above all else.
It’s crazy how arrogant in their ignorance westerners are
You’re serious 😬