• Rolder@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

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

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 days 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.

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      3 days 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.