#i don't mean to suggest that soviet influence had No Positive Effects for - say - the baltics or poland | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

maxknightley · 2 months

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broadly speaking I agree with the idea that the flaws of the USSR have been exaggerated by capitalist critics, but I gotta say, I'm not especially sympathetic to the argument "unlike Actual Imperialist nations, the USSR nobly sacrificed its resources to help its backward satellite states Rise Up"

like damn that sure is an argument that "actual" imperialist nations have famously never used lol

#i don't mean to suggest that soviet influence had No Positive Effects for - say - the baltics or poland #but i do think it's naive to act like anti-soviet sentiment in those places just spawned out of nowhere #like there's a ~disembodied spirit of reaction~ that appears regardless of people's actual living conditions #anyway. as usual it's the hardcore Actually Existing Socialism Defenders that make me more suspicious about things like this #while the China Is Tyranically Putting An End To Seven Figure Salaries guys are the ones who make me go 'damn china sounds awesome actually #so i will admit that some of this is may just be a contrarian / broadly cynical tendency on my part

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