• adibis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t get why you’re downvoted. Probably all the people who’ve never actually lived in communist states.

    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Very true of the criticisms of the USSR, to be sure. What you have to remember is that the USSR had a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party system implementing the so-called “dictatorship of the proletariat” in order to, at some point in the future, achieve “true” communism. The USSR was intended more as a transition phase than a permanent form of government & economy. For many reasons, it did not work out.