Lo, dear history revisionists fans of the objective truth! It's your fave provider of alternate history parables anecdotal experiences speaking again. See, today is "an" historic day in the... ehm, history of my tiny country situated on the fringe between Europe and Asia. Btw Monday was another historic day too. All in all, seems like this week is
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The best pr0n now comes from there!
Good thing Putin keeps wasting money on the Soviet Russian military. It keeps them from out-Chinaing China.
As for the American tendency to rail against socialism in all its forms: we've learned from the best (worst?). You don't wait until you have a Hitler or Stalin or even a Mussolini or Trotsky or [insert French guy]. By then it is too late to point out the dead-end.
So you start when people use euphemisms like "distribute wealth" and "make people pay their fair share" and "evil corporations".
That way you are fighting a political fight and not a real war with bullets.
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However, every indication is that for the past century socialists (who were basically absorbed by the Democrats here in the US) have been working to implement their goals.
There are some things that are innocuous, of course. I don't think anyone views calls for a shorter work week as the first step toward a gulag state, for example.
But things like the government take over of health care are obviously more than a single step down the path to socialism.
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Was this a deliberate invocation of the Communist Manifesto? Please say it was, cause that would be awesome.
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Could it be said that one weakness of Communism in the Eastern European states was that only in Yugoslavia did it arise from any truly indigenous element, meaning that foreign-backed fascist governments were generally replaced with foreign-backed Communist ones but nothing aside from the type of party-state changed for the average person?
Is there also a possibility that in the heat of the Cold War that the US tendency to see all Communists as Moscow's puppets prevented the Western bloc from seeing adequately the inherent weaknesses of it in the Eastern?
On another note-I keep seeing in Western histories that Bulgaria always felt some kind of alliance and attachment to Russia, but then in World War I it was one of the Central Powers and spent most of WWII as one of the Axis. Can you perhaps clue me in as to where that bit of WTFness in US history as regards Bulgarian comes from?
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Wonder why this sounds too familiar?
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