• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    If he hadn’t been, would the USSR survived? That focus on technology, factories, and efficiency, no matter the cost, seems like the right approach when there’s Nazis at your doorstep, conquering all of Europe and conducting mass exterminations.

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      1 month ago

      Nothing says “preparing for war against the Nazis and capitalists” like murdering your entire officer corps of true believers that won the Revolution that you didn’t actually fight in

          • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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            1 month ago

            I probably will, reality is extremely fucked up in entirely fixable ways but there’s no indication they’ll be fixed in my lifetime because they’re all profitable for someone, if you’re not mad you’re either stupid or evil