Posted on 06/19/2022 7:42:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Most likely their womens olympic team that was years ahead of Lia Thomas
The vast natural resources of Russia, that wealth and head start, that energy and food growing capacity, the ingenuity and creativity of the Russia people and culture, was not enough to make Communism work.
Soviet strongman and corrupt gubmint staffers tried their best over decades, and they ended by breaking the Soviet economy
This Jacobin article is a wistful whitewash of the real situation in East Germany and the rest of the captured nations under Soviet control. Once they had the power, the Soviets controlled everything and if the locals tried to go in any other directions (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.) they were there immediately with T-34s to crush them.
The Communists sweetly omit how and why the Nazis came into power in Germany: the Reds were a major force in Germany after WWI and gangs of revolutionaries roamed all over Germany starting fights in the streets and occasionally, gun battles with army veterans who opposed them. There was a real danger that Germany would follow in the path of the Bolsheviks and fall under the Soviet penumbra - and most Germans saw this as a distinct danger. (Interestingly, the Communists formed "Antifascist" fighting units - Antifa). The only movement that organized the thugs and criminals to fight back against the Communists was the National Socialist Party - Nazis - and that is how they grew into national and total power. They were the only organization who could defeat the growing power of the Communists.
Just a bit like buying an alligator to rid your home of rats...
Bingo.
Right after re-unification some colleagues of mine visited EGermany to assess the status of their nuclear industry. It was in shambles, literally. We were surprised that there wasn’t a Chernoble (sp?) type event at every facility. Regular workers could not afford a full set of pipe wrenches to do maintenance on steam pipes — they had one over-sized wrench and various wood blocks to fit in for smaller pipes. Their entire tech was like visiting a pre-1900 plant, and not steam-punk, either. It was ugly.
Communism of any sort (DemoSociailism, progressive, etc) are all failures. Rotten to the core. Anyone claiming to be part of that party has never been to a commie country, or listened to anyone who fled.
My father was a manual laborer, basically sympathetic towards communism, but he said with skepticism: “In communism, whether you work or don’t work, it doesn’t make a difference!”
And that is basically the problem.
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