The rich has so much more class solidarity than the working-class. This article was kind of depressing in how obvious they made it.

Oh damn. Saving this video to watch later.

It was extremely obvious war was coming with the Germans eventually, as much as the USSR would’ve loved to avoid it to build up their capacity more, I’m sure. Germany was filled with anti-communist propaganda, they arrested and killed a lot of their own communists, a lot of their antisemitic propaganda associated the Jews with communists (the Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy theory that continues in conservative circles to this day). Germany and Japan literally made an anti-communist pact in 1936 that Italy later joined. They were on opposite sides of the Spanish Civil War, etc.

They tried to ally with the West first but weren’t able to because the West didn’t like communism, and preferred to just go with the policy of appeasement to avoid a war without having to ally with the USSR. So they ended up making a non-aggression pact with Germany to protect themselves. It’s the same reason they expanded their border area, to protect themselves and give them the time for the inevitable future conflict they knew was coming with the Nazis. Remember, they were still recovering from World War 1 and various civil wars. At first, they tried to do it through a treaty so their troops could move through Poland voluntarily to help defend against Germany, but they refused.

And let’s not forget that the US does the same thing, but worse, expanding their military bases not for defensive reasons but for imperialist reasons, all around the world.

Damn, imagine if the U$ had military bases based in countries they had invaded or forced through other coercive means.

I thought his privatizations were in response to shortages. Or was it just to get the US off their back?

Figured that would be either Cambodia or North Korea, but it’s hard to keep track sometimes. America drops so many bombs.

Are they going to start arresting governors and mayors?

What is Computex? Sounds like some computer program from an 80s movie lol.

It is interesting that liberalization hurt the USSR, but not China. At least, not yet. I wonder why that is.

Who?

Woah that sounds huge.

Nice!! Hope people reacted well to it.