[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Gaius Octavius wrote:
No, really, it isn’t. Communist regimes can’t stay in power for any reasonable length of time simply because the system is unworkable…
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However, in spite of a full frontal hot war from the Nazis and a 50 year long cold war from Western Europe and the US it DID survive a while.
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Despite? Wars don’t damage regimes. It only solidifies support behind the state against an enemy. If there wasn’t a cold war the Soviet people wouldn’t have tolerated the leadership’s ineptness nearly as long.
War is the health of the State.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]TooHuman wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Gaius Octavius wrote:
No, really, it isn’t. Communist regimes can’t stay in power for any reasonable length of time simply because the system is unworkable…
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However, in spite of a full frontal hot war from the Nazis and a 50 year long cold war from Western Europe and the US it DID survive a while.
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Despite? Wars don’t damage regimes. It only solidifies support behind the state against an enemy. If there wasn’t a cold war the Soviet people wouldn’t have tolerated the leadership’s ineptness nearly as long.[/quote]
The “What If?” game can be a very entertaining one to play.[/quote]
I was born there. This is how my parents’ and granparents’ saw it to be.
My grandfather ran a tailoring business “illegally” for decades and knows first hand that there was a underground market ready to take hold if it weren’t for public propaganda against western capitalists in Vietnam and Afghanistan.