• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The problem being that it wasn’t the exact opposite. In fact, they had a lot of things in common. The leaders of both being self-interested megalomaniacs who desired control of all things around them.

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      10 hours ago

      The leaders of both being self-interested megalomaniacs who desired control of all things around them.

      That’s easer to point out after the fact. I wouldn’t be surprised if the USSR was hitting all of their citizens with propaganda much like the US used to do with the “Land of the Free” saying

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        10 hours ago

        They were, yes.

        See? Another similarity.

        It was definitely a reaction to living under an authoritarian regime. The problem was that the reaction wasn’t “I don’t want this to ever happen again”, it was “I want to be the one in charge”.