They forgot the fifth bulletpoint:
- Can you think for yourself?
Feel free to hijack it. Intellectual property is a meme.
Was the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance just a Soviet version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
To hijack this thread with a question. I have heard explanation on how Munich was attempt to make Hitler go East and crush the USSR. But how does that account for the fact that when Hitler indeed went East the French and Britons declared war on Germany?
In that last picture you see the same artefacts around Stalin as well, and around every single one of the individuals here if you look closely. Like, look at all their shoulders, they all have the same "aura". You want to say that they were bluescreening? Make sure that you don't see what you want to see. I can't find a single claim that such erasures did not happen.
There is always this claim going around that Eastern European State Socialisms were bad and there were many negative things.
It is always the same, political camps, atrocities, people robbed of even little property they had, shortages of stockings and proper medical care, and so on.
Was it really that bad? What are these claims based on? Are they all complete fabrications? I know that political camps did exist, it is a necessary step in fighting counterrevolution.
"It's all just a projection at this point."
- Karl Ilyich Stalin in his book "100 million deaths: the highest stage of communism" published 1984
A serious answer would be perhaps transition to measuring success of a company by profits.
I like that headline about Chinese billionaires losing wealth. Yet the Chinese economy is growing. Wow so capitalist country.