Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Life Guide" channel.

  1. That sounds somewhat like Venezuela in 2014.
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  2. Not really as socialism is communism's daddy.
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  3. Russia/USSR is among the 5 whitest countries in the world.
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  4.  @AyUniz  The USSR was in serious need of reforms, because the central planning model was past its expiry date.
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  5. By demanding that those toys be taken away from the other kids and be redistributed to the less fortunate, namely himself, under the guise of fairness and equality.
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  6.  @olivermitter6465  Only because they were dependent on the state to provide them a living. Once the USSR collapsed, they were SOL.
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  7. Who exposed the limitations of the Soviet central planning economy with his military budget.
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  8.  @CulturalBolshevik  Lenin was every bit a genocidal and repressive. <Stalin did a lot of other stuff that undermined Lenin's efforts to create an equal society.> Lenin's efforts included robbing and killing peasants who didn't agree to giving up property and wealth they achieved by honest means and hard work. The same peasants he claimed to have so much solidarity with. <The idea of socialism doesn't involve giving up civil liberties.> Not according to even Marx who advocated wholesale repression of the individual in favor of the collective to create this "new breed of man." Therefore, the idea if socialism involves giving up civil liberties and also targeting he successful and productive otherwise known as the bourgeoisie for scapegoating, robbery and slaughter.
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  9. Exactly. Ditto for Vietnam.
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  10. Or Ethiopia and Somalia. Endless civil wars and no functional government.
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  11. Putin cares nothing about the people. He just cares about power and his bank account.
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  12. Which countries? Poland? Afghanistan? Hungary? Czechoslovakia? Bulgaria?
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  13. Well, the USSR's economy was suspect from the beginning and all the West did was expose it for the fraud it really was.
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  14.  @clintonberry8034  Against its will.
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  15. What's wrong with being homophobic? And by they way, communists always had a low opinion on homosexuals as they regard them as bourgeoisie filth.
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  16. Like what Nazi Germany and Mussolini-era Italy had?
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  17. Don't expect it from leftists.
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  18.  @kaushertop  Yes it did as it was a PR fiasco. Outsiders were finally able to get a glimpse of what went on in the USSR and locals were finally able to access foreign media.
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  19. They claim socialist/communist, because they don't have to live under it like the average Cuban/North Korean, too busy enjoying the benefits and privileges of living in a capitalist society they so despise.
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  20. Socialism = power to the government.
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  21. No. That was more the beginning of the end.
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  22. Exactly.
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  23. Maybe when China decides to cut off the aid like the USSR did with Eastern Europe.
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  24. If they really cared about the welfare of their citizens, they would have invested in economic development and productivity and allow them to participate and make an honest living, equality be damned!
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  25.  @skankhunts42  Also massive PR consequences.
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  26. Communism was never a good system, though.
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  27.  Hungary #1  Too bad their diplomas are largely useless in a state-controlled job market and the free healthcare isn't much to write home about.
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  28.  @bri1085  And I presume you must be a union boss, feminist or Argentinian.
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  29. Except the USSR's economy was nowhere nearly as diverse as the US's is.
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  30. The USSR couldn't handle Finland. How is it going to crush the USA?
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  31.  @TheBayzent  LMAO
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  32. LOL. The USSR all but completely stopped being self-sufficient by the time it collapsed.
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  33. No. It was losing the Afghanistan War that started the USSR's downfall.
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  34. Socialism is the father of communism.
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  35. Socialism was the reason. Socialism was never a self-sustaining model to begin with.
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  36.  @TankMarko  Right.
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  37. And also left every other country that adopted it bankrupt.
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  38. Only because the elder population either used to work for or received a handout from the government. They're just mad that gravy train is over and cannot anymore rely on government to take care of them.
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  39. Every other Soviet client state.
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  40. The Soviet Union actually made North Korea.
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