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Belarus sure. I don't know about the rest though.
What I meant by capitalist countries not having solidarity is that U.S. is more than willing to fuck over its own allies (like its doing with Germany now) and has done it many times in the past.
'To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal' -Kissinger
I mostly agree with the rest. Of course, USSR wasn't purely motivated by ideology. But Putin saying Soviet Union had no 'friends' is very silly. There is a reason why so many global south countries view Russia (and USSR) positively.
I mean, silly on its face. What did he think the "Union" part of the USSR meant? It wasn't just Russians For Russia. You had the entire Warsaw Pact working towards a common goal.
I can see arguments that the Hungarian Revolution was the first in a long line of phony propaganda-inspired color revolutions. I can also see it as a real weakness in the early Soviet social model. The act of sending in tanks to suppress the revolt was a consequence of that failure, not the cause of it. One could say the same of Tienanmen. By the time the tanks arrived, the state had already failed.