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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 05:54:42 JST feld

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   • cy
   @cy @BalooUriza > But it was also subject to decades of economic embargo from every bastard capitalist state out there, doing their absolute best to starve poor people to death to force them to revolt.
   
   Try explaining the Romanian Palace of Parliament built by Ceaușescu. Romania was "so poor" it could construct the second largest administrative building in the world. My friend who grew up during this time told me that magically the food and sugar rationing disappeared when they killed him. It was being hoarded. There wasn't really a shortage.
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     cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 05:54:43 JST cy

     • Baloo Uriza
     The Soviet Union was absolutely terrible, an autocratic tyranny disguised as a communist state, that everyone in it hated and no one was allowed to say they did. But it was also subject to decades of economic embargo from every bastard capitalist state out there, doing their absolute best to starve poor people to death to force them to revolt. They sent fanatical capitalist spies in to undermine what little stability the Soviet Union managed to achieve. The gulags were arguably arranged by capitalists who had a full on underground campaign to infiltrate and obscure just how bad the camps were getting. The Soviets had their own spies and fanatics, but they were a much less stable state, so they didn't have near the imbalance of power that capitalists/mafiosos could use to create horrible things. You can find dozens of examples of people in the USA driven to enforce their own oppression out of fear of Soviet spies, and almost no actual infiltration doing any actual harm.
     
     Ironically, now that mafiosos have taken over Russia, and the whole thing has converted to a capitalist state, now they have the power over people to carry on a coordinated campaign of destructive infiltration in the USA, up to and including throwing presidential elections in the favor of maximum chaos and mayhem.
     
     So uh... what I mean is "we" sped things up for a long time before Reagan. He certainly went high octane on the Kill the Evil Empire line of thinking though.