Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Soviet Russia’s Merciless War for Grain" video.

They had a better "narrative"; "You (meaning the State) will own the land vs going back to being serfs."
121
@richardarriaga6271 Mistakes were made. However, no. Check your sociopathy.
67
Well, I mean you can't just eat your own children, think of the... oh never mind.
12
@alanywalany6460 I guess you didn't pay attention to the end of the video...
6
@Alex-fr2td Prices dropped due to market price collapse during the Great Depression not mechanization. This also has nothing at all to do with Soviet grain/food supply/demand malmanagment during the Civil War and 20s when demand and prices were high.
5
@deniskhafizov6827 You whatabouted all over that...
4
Watch video again. It was drastic circumstances, it was sheer incompetence.
3
@Alex-fr2td That is wrong, completely backwards.
2
@John_Smith_86 That is totally false. I was well understood if not the science it is today. The Reds simply rejected it in favor of wishful thinking and impractical theories written by a couple of dimwits in a Brussels coffee shop.
1
@jaystrickland4151 It might have been outlawed but it was still in effect, the peasant farmers were no more mobile or well off. The Czarist were very much about reestablishing the feudal status quo.
1
@kazaddum2448 The Red Army not only stole (giving a useless receipt isn't money) and killed/displaced whatever ethnic group that commanders didn't like or had a problem with, they also systematically engaged in class warfare against the "Kulaks".
1
@IncredibleMD Some were.
1
@dwayneelvis3295 Serfdom was legally abolished, but just like in America when slavery was, the elites found ways of keeping them tied to the land and in poverty.
1
Hey its a Ruzziaboo making excuses and casting blame.
1
@deniskhafizov6827 The only common factor here is the corruption that infected the USSR.
1
No. Social order can be maintained quite well by totalitarianism.
1