Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
I always thought that it was a combination of factors - western pressure being on the bottom of the list.
Just look at cuba really. Very crappy for life, yet has all the best doctors (and baseball players) in all America. Also, least analphabets per capita of America, possibly one of the highest in the world.

I think the problem with the soviet union was that it was not socialist anymore, it was facisto-communist. Big ol' Stalin got the bling, and the prollies only got the ****ing.

Well really, I think the problem with all harcore socialist/communist countries is that they eventually wind up to be facist despotic dictatorships.

Lenin made it ahead, only for everyone else to **** up. You know, except the Gulag, Cheka, anti-semitism, Red Terror, etc.

At least he wasn't a tyrant.

~Jirisys ()