Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "How the Soviets Landed on Venus" video.

@leland818 Not in the USSR, mate.
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@ozymandiasultor9480 The core belief of it is clasd struggle (division). It is also absolutist, meaning that anyone who doesn't agree is expendable, as it has proven time and time again.
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@conzmoleman It is an impressive achievement, but the system they lived under did many terrible things.
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@robertagren9360 Tell that to Afghanistan 1979-1989.
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@ozymandiasultor9480 it doesn't- "absolutism" means that only one point of view is considered correct. When you have that, then anyone who disagrees with it is in trouble. Its other problems are "the end justifies the means", and seeing people as blocs not individuals, meaning that individual suffering is seen as meaningless and sometimes necessary. (Even though societies, class etc do not exist without the individual.) Because it cannot succeed, shortly after a revolution, it has to look for scapegoats, to explain its failures, often people within the movement itself. It can either do that, or water down its policies, which the NEP did and China has.
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@spartacus17. "It's never been tried properly" - how many more people have to die before you realise it can never work?
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Mars has a monster canyon. That may be where the canals come from.
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@JohnGardnerAlhadis I know about Schiaparelli, thanks. But some of the canals are likely based on larger surface features that can be seen from.Earth
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