LeniX
“Ukraine to be given an excuse why it was baited with a NATO-on-a-stick and thrown away like a broken screwdriver”
The majority of Republikans are liberals too. In the classical sense of the word. Calling chuds “liberals” melts that place of theirs where the brain is usually supposed to be.
I honestly thought this could not get more embarrassing. Holy shit… Like, do you not know history at all? I can’t… I just… There’s a million things to say about this, I don’t even know where to start.
Death to Banderite Nazis. Death to Ze. Death to America.
I think the wall’s been pretty lonely, it needs a short, but very passionate date with this SOB. Face to brick
30+ years of poverty, misery and capitalist plunder, culminating in a devastating military conflict - all because of the USSR is not around anymore. Yet, they go out and “celebrate” its dissolution, surrounded by rivers of literal shit because the “independent” government stole the money that was set aside to repair the sewage system (Soviet-built, by the way). Fucking cucks…
Seriously, though - the US has the best propaganda money can buy.
Ukraine is a fascist state, simple as that. Anyone claiming otherwise is either extremely ignorant or extremely dishonest
I expected the US to have kept their Nazi dogs on a leash this time around. That way, they could have painted a rosy picture to their domestic libs - “oh, look, how progressive they are over there! They have pride parades and Starbucks”
It seems like the Nazis just don’t give a fuck sometimes.
But what exactly caused the split?
You sort of answered this one yourself. Among numerous factors it is precisely the things you mentioned - the de-Stalinisation nonsense, the purge against pro-Stalin elements (if you can even call them that - they were just anti-revisionist Marxists-Leninists), blatant revisionism of Marxism-Leninism and its core principles (continuous class struggle, dictatorship of the proletariat, the party of the proletariat), blind optimism when it comes to the national question
What policies did he push that were reformist or capitalist in nature ? How exactly did he fuck up?
They weren’t all strictly capitalist in nature, to be honest. It would be more accurate to say that his blunderous policies created conditions for capitalist restoration inside Soviet Socialism.
The policies typically referred are such: he dismantled the state-owned MTSs (machine and tractor stations), putting the responsibility of maintaining and repairing the machinery on collective farms. He dismantled central planning, replacing existing institutions with decentralized regional planning committees, which greatly exacerbated the existing difficulties with planning. He encouraged the peasantry to keep more privately-owned produce and livestock, essentially strengthening NEP-style measures without second thought. He adopted wage-leveling - a mistake of monstrous proportions, which decimated incentive for production growth (more of a left-deviation, honestly - the USSR was not ready for such a thing), and also created severe discontent among the intellectuals, prompting them to look for other means of enrichment, siphoning this strata of society into the “second” economy who would then constitute would-be capitalists in its embryonic form.
He also started the Virgin Lands cultivation bullshit, instead of trying to make a qualitative shift in agriculture. The idea was also to emulate US agricultural practice with heavy use of mineral fertilizer. The results were disastrous, partly due to the fact that initial yield seemed to have increased (but that was only true for land already cultivated), which gave overall sense of false promise, and also due to the abandonment of Stalin’s afforestation program, which worsened issues with droughts.
There were also big mistakes of political nature on top of those related to the economy, including the damage done to CPSU - recruiting too many people of questionable ideological strength, massively increasing the % of intelligentsia compared to industrial proletariat, needless bureaucratization, etc. He also drove a split into industrial and agricultural factions inside the CPSU.
Simply said, his overall strategy represented a Bukharinist right-deviation within the political spectrum of the CPSU. Something Stalin warned might happen in a peasant-dominated country.
The list is hella incomplete, please feel free to add more stuff.
