Do you miss the soviet union?

-The real country that defeated Nazi Germany
-The first country that send satellite and men into space
-Provides a balance of power to the world
-Invented the AK47 for freedom fighters around the globe
-Has more beautiful women
-Has awesome architecture
-Provides security for Asian countries eg Vietnam

You add to the list.

Reply 1

Jackoclypse

11

-Best damn propaganda poster art style I have ever seen
-Also cool flag

Reply 2

DErasmus

3

- Awesome labour camps.
- Probably the best secret police ever.
- Excellent ruling class.

Reply 3

Clip

19

- Pioneered the "just kill absolutely everyone" policy in Afghanistan.
- World leaders in cheating at the Olympics

Reply 4

Greenlaner

11

- The most badass national anthem of all time.

Reply 5

RoflSeal

1

USSR is of stronk country. NKVD of good. If family taken to Siberia, more potato for me, but potato moldy and have worm. Such is life, is of struggle.

Reply 6

viddy9

16

The majority of Russians do want to see the Soviet Union return, according to polls.

The Soviet Union under Gorbachev would likely have been better than Putin's current fascist state.

Reply 7

ChaoticButterfly

20

Animal Farm in practice.

Reply 8

Yux

13

Not russian myself but I have ethnic russian friends from latvia who feel a sort of nostalgia from the past as back then they were stronger, more powerful but now they feel as if they are just another country.....especially in latvia and other post soviet states where russians are institutionally discriminated against..............

Reply 9

yo radical one

6

The Soviet Union was a disgusting stain on humanity.

Reply 10

username878045

17

Original post by ChaoticButterfly

Animal Farm in practice.

I like how you're comparing it to an allegory of it. :tongue:

Reply 11

Moosferatu

19

"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."
- Vladimir Putin

I think in one way it was an absolute tragedy because it basically sunk the left and left consumerism to wreak havoc unchallenged across the world. However the bigger shame is that the left was hi-jacked by vile Marxists through the 20th century to the point where it needed the Soviet Union to sustain itself.

Reply 12

ChaoticButterfly

20

Nope. As an anarchist leaning lefty the Soviet Union was a morbid monster in need of being put down imo. To bad it was replaced with a capitalist oligarchy. Poor Russians.

The Russians revolution was utterly lost to authoritarianism the moment the Bolsheviks turned on the sailors and sealed their dictatorship.

Original post by PythianLegume

I like how you're comparing it to an allegory of it. :tongue:

Double whammy.

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Reply 13

Swanbow

19

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Reply 14

DErasmus

3

Original post by ChaoticButterfly

Nope. As an anarchist leaning lefty the Soviet Union was a morbid monster in need of being put down imo. To bad it was replaced with a capitalist oligarchy. Poor Russians.

The Russians revolution was utterly lost to authoritarianism the moment the Bolsheviks turned on the sailors and sealed their dictatorship.

Double whammy.

The sailors were not saints, they let a white army general on their ship. I'd be pretty pissed as well if I were a Bolshevik.

Reply 15

ChaoticButterfly

20

Original post by DErasmus

The sailors were not saints, they let a white army general on their ship. I'd be pretty pissed as well if I were a Bolshevik.

Once the Bolsheviks defeated the sailors (the very ones that helped seal the Bolsheviks' power) their authority was entrenched. The Bolsheviks completely destroyed any freedoms that were won by ordinary people and the rest is history.

Reply 16

DErasmus

3

Original post by ChaoticButterfly

Once the Bolsheviks defeated the sailors (the very ones that helped seal the Bolsheviks' power) their authority was entrenched. The Bolsheviks completely destroyed any freedoms that were won by ordinary people and the rest is history.

Freedoms won by ordinary people? You must be joking the provisional government was garbage, Russia was utterly destroyed economically and all the workers did was go on strike undermining the governments efforts during wartime, prior to this they were ruled by a Tsar who defined freedom as the ability to not die when doing as he said. There was about as many freedoms under the Bolsheviks, Provisional government and the Tsars, none. The grubby sailors decided to let a white army general on their ship, they were traitors plain and simple.

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Reply 18

Kallisto

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22

In times of the soviet union, the capitalism was not so dominated in the world, because it was in a competition with the socialism. That's why the capitalism was more humane than ever before, as the capitalism in West Germany has to persuade the Germans which of them the better economy was. Otherwise the Germans were move to East Germany and the communism what the allies in West Germany intended to prevent. I'm sure that some development in economy (globalisation) were not come into being when the soviet union and the socialism would still exist. Don't get me wrong! I like neither the capitalism nor the socialism, but the competition between these economies was the best framework condition for Germans. In West at least.

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