Comments by "K X" (@kx7500) on "How Capitalism Destroyed Russia" video.

  1. people under the USSR were also doing pretty poorly. It wasn't socialist at all.
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  2.  @humanchannel7825  nope, no politically literate person considers it remotely genuinely communist.
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  3.  @thetaomegatheta  that’s a pathetic standard. I have no biases against acknowledging that the USSR had legit benefits for its citizens compared to others, but it still was an extremely far cry from socialism and an extremely authoritarian one. Gulags, imperialism, famines, banning of dissent, all the same restrictions of a capitalist state but painted red and the hope of a revolution crushed. The modern Russian state is bad but it’s not like everything just went to shit after the collapse but everything was great beforehand, a lot of it was already shit, things just got even worse generally. You have no idea what people like me are, but you showed your hand. You are sympathetic to authoritarian counter-revolutionary states co-opting socialist rhetoric and pretending anyone that disapproves of such must be wealthy even though the USSR still had a vicious class system.
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