Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Cold War" channel.

  1. Communism earned its condemnation.
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  2.  @panoskatrin4910  I already did. Communism earned its condemnation.
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  3. You mean to tell me that democracy as communism/socialism supposed to require to make the model legitimate ended up being the model's undoing in Mongolia? WOW!
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  4. Well, the Soviet Union earned its slander by its deeds.
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  5. You already have that. It's called the housing projects.
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  6.  @Trgn  <Russia only did it inside their territory and their own> Like Afghanistan?
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  7. But Somalia lost the Ogaden War, declined and eventually collapsed under a communist leadership that was interestingly US-backed.
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  8.  @baneofbanes  Just ask anyone from the Baltics, Eastern Europe, Central Asia or even Finland.
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  9. Both communism and fascism are offspring of socialism. And fascism's founder, Benito Mussolini, was a communist.
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  10. LOL @ Poland being an empire.
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  11. And make Atheism the religion of the land. Sure they abolished religion!
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  12. No. China copied Singapore's system.
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  13. Russia/USSR supported its fair share of puppet regimes in Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Angola, North Korea, Mongolia, East Germany.
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  14. In the gulag.
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  15.  @olliefoxx7165  And ivory towers.
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  16.  @baneofbanes  And the former Soviet bloc sought independence as soon as they could.
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  17. As one of the poorest countries in Europe.
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  18. The content-creator has no use for credibility from tankies.
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  19. And meat from other humans.
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  20. Well, socialism as with all other collectivist ideologies do not believe in individual liberty or agency and their ideas can only be achieved by brute force.
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  21.  @baneofbanes  Just like Mobutu. For a guy who claimed to be anti-communist, he idolized and ran his country like a communist.
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  22.  @NBrioDaZueraRules  But is not worthy of any worship as the state is flawed just like the average human.
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  23. While socialistic economies depend on infinite resources and cash flow wreaking havoc on the environment and the treasury often ending up adopting capitalist reforms, relying on foreign aid and/or resigning themselves to be isolated, backward and obsolete hellholes.
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  24.  @johnl5316  He was a professional protestor and lived off of his then GF. Became a property-owning millionaire from his time as state senator.
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  25.  @0000-z4z  Only because the Soviet Union embarrassed them. <They want, what Karl Marx wanted: A society where you are free of capitalism.> Which was practiced in Somalia.
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  26. Too bad it imploded.
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  27. Russia is a pioneer.
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  28. IMF: the end result of countries left bankrupt by socialist/left-wing economic policies.
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  29. Something a typical socialist would say when his/her beloved system implodes.
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  30. Unified against its will.
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  31.  @butterflies655  Despite the USSR's best attempt in 1939.
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  32. The USSR. And it's not even close.
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  33.  @blitzerblazinoah6838  And Iceland wanted out.
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  34. <People don't understand there was so much destruction wars in Yugoslavia still was respectful country decent standard they didn't rob African Asian continents > Austria didn't rob Africa or Asia either.
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  35. Plus, fascism was invented by a communist.
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  36. <seems when a country like mine is rich in resources that other countries need, you can expect this. > You can thank Justin Trudeau's carbon tax and other restrictions on production and distribution for that.
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  37. Mostly in leftist-run cities and states.
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  38. While setting the country up for future failure once the money to meet every basic human need dries up.
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  39.  @Prororo  What lack of democracy? Lack of regime bootlicks who wanted the communist system to stay?
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  40. LOL
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  41.  @Totalitarianizer  Better than the hyper-collectivism North Korea has where everyone just exist for the benefit of Kim Jong-Un and gang.
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  42. Maybe but it still doesn't change the fact that capitalism's shortcomings pale in comparison to communism's.
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  43.  @Cortesevasive  There's no such thing as free.
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  44. LOL
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  45. Not being able to afford to travel is not the same thing as not being legally allowed to travel. Being a poor American still beats being a not-completely-poor Russian any day of the week.
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  46.  @nathanstruble2177  So did another example of resource curse.
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  47.  @akosnagy387  In other words, you worked for the regime.
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  48. ROFL
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  49.  @hoxhacat8195  Somalia had all that.
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  50.  @gosuns72  Living off of Chinese handouts just like North Korea.
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