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

  1.  @PhiksuPlantBiologist  Thanks to the US.
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  2. While setting the country up for bankruptcy.
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  3.  @fridge6668  While the hobos in China and North Korea are left to starve in the outskirts of the city.
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  4. Case in point: Ukraine.
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  5.  Basic Truths  The same IMF loans he voluntarily took along with the treasury to build his Palace Of The Parliament. <Romania was the only sovereign country in the eastern block and paid off to the IMF educate yourself> At the expense of a few thousand people he let starve and freeze to death.
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  6. @P T In all fairness, 68% of Canadians are property-owners.
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  7. This is what leftists mean by workers owning the means of production. Replace expertise with novice.
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  8. No it couldn't as it was a religion unto itself.
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  9. Everyone knows that already.
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  10. That's how North Korea does it.
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  11.  @Project_Amirani  <Something like OGAS was being implemented in Salvador Alliendes Chile called CyberSyn. But this experiment was stopped by a counter-revolution backed by CIA.> Which turned out to be a good thing in the end as post-Pinochet Chile is now one of wealthiest countries in Latin America.
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  12. And they lost a war to Finland.
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  13. Everyone already knows.
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  14. And then become exactly Margaret Thatcher talked about as an example of how it only worked when other people's money kept rolling in.
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  15.  @joseaca1010  Exactly.
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  16. @P T Yes it did. Those few "treasonous" politicians were just trying to delay the inevitable.
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  17. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  18.  @baneofbanes  Just imagine if the USSR/Russia had ice-free ports. Would have given France a run for its money.
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  19.  @SCPKing1835  In other words, Yugoslavia was a personality cult dependent on a strongman to keep it together.
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  20.  @雪狐fluffy  Pretty much.
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  21.  @mcmcmcm6520  AHH! Mexico, a one-time empire.
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  22. Khrushchev gave the Soviet Union its best years. He destroyed nothing except the egos of the Soviet military and political class.
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  23. Or competent.
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  24.  @mishapurser4439  They don't have to make themselves look less bad. They are less bad.
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  25. LOL. You know that India actually had socialism for most of its post-independence existence, right?
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  26. <attempt at an alternative system to capitalism?> That proved itself to be inefficient and even more brutal.
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  27. <and still is here in Scotland, > Thanks to English taxpayers.
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  28.  @aviralshukla15  Yes. And Atheism = Paganism 2.0
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  29. That Yugoslavia happily accepted as it had no real economy and fooled the people into believing its model was viable.
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  30.  @matheusvillela9150  The average Native reservations have no homelessness.
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  31. India already did socialism/communism with Nehru.
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  32. <Communism is a stateless, moneyless society and thus can only come about on a world scale> Through the very same imperialism capitalism is accused of.
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  33.  @007kingifrit  And he interestingly advocates for the same socialism/communism he admitted his own parents fled from.
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  34. He who feeds you owns you. (c) Thomas Sankara
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  35. And then it fell as fast as it rose.
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  36. Yet no freedom of movement as they were treated like illegal immigrants in their own country having to show papers.
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  37. Because they happened under Lenin and Stalin.
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  38. <The socialist state funded for space missions and military.> While leaving other industries to crumble bankrupting the country in the process.
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  39.  @achbanilacran2061  Mussolini who himself was a communist.
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  40. Aside from rigged elections and a decidedly lower body count for the former, there is no difference. And all communists are socialist anyway.
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  41. While socialism requires infinite resources and cash flow to sustain itself.
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  42. The biggest irony of communism is that it always seeks to become what it's trying to eradicate.
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  43. Establish itself as the default religion.
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  44. Pretty much.
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  45.  @badluck5647  It is an issue of race as Black people made up the majority in the places plagued with concentrated poverty.
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  46. Once it ran out of other people's money.
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  47.  @SCPKing1835  Yes it did. It ran out of US and Soviet money.
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  48.  @kerriwilson7732  Don't forget Albania.
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  49. And replace it with you own opium.
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  50. Yet the guy who invented the term and fascism was a socialist himself.
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