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[-] FinnysDad@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

Are you saying Russia isn't engaged in war crimes against Ukraine?

[-] antisoumerde@quokk.au 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No. I'm saying Russia even exist as a country because america coup'ed the USSR.

Which, incidently, make me unpopular among russians apologists but you're so brainwashed you think i'm with them, dont ya?

[-] FinnysDad@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The Soviet Union imploded first and foremost due to its massive internal contradictions. Any involvement from the US or Soros is secondary at best. Gorbachev's reforms threatened the power of the bureaucrat ruling class. They are the ones that killed the Soviet Union in order to become the oligarchs.

[-] antisoumerde@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

Riiiight. So the US spent between 1916 and 1989 waging war, murdering left-wing politicians, and blockading, and it didn't have any influence at all?

Please be serious

[-] FinnysDad@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't say that. In fact I acknowledged that the US attacked it. But the USSR also worked to undermine capitalist regimes. So what? You're the one that isn't being serious because you don't have an answer for the fact the Soviet Union was a walking contradiction. It claimed to be a workers socialist government yet in praxis it was state capitalism with an authoritarian government. That contradiction is what brought it down. But yeah it's easier to just blame America and keep the socialist movement from learning and adapting.

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