OtakuAltair, 3 months ago

support anything China and Russia do

You’re literally quoting a comment where I rightfully disapprove of what the then Russian leaders and traitors did, ignoring their own laws at that.

Gorbachev and his western capitalist friends’ illegal dissolution of the USSR and forced change to capitalism was opposed by over 90% of the population, and was a disaster that the former Soviet states still haven’t fully recovered from 33 years later.

It resulted in wealth being transferred from the working class to the capitalists (which was the entire point of course).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f7cd3e03-d08d-4984-9fa4-9f0496a886c8.png

Real incomes were cut in half, industrial production declined by 20%, and prices soared by 250%.

All the while health and education spending decreased, resulting in a 12.8% increase in deaths, 6 year drop in life expectancy in Russia between 1991-1994 (for reference, it dropped by 1 year during Covid), and 85% of the population in former Soviet states going under the poverty line.

Basically, everything you’d expect to happen from a Socialist union being forced to become capitalist, happened.

Not to mention the global impact of post-Soviet states, now controlled by capitalists, no longer wanting to oppose imperialism on the world stage. If the USSR wasn’t illegally dissolutioned, they would continue to fund Vietnam, the NATO invasion of Libya would be thwarted, the numerous US-backed coups in Africa would be defended against, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine would be strongly opposed, as the USSR was already the largest funder of Palestine’s PFLP.

And of course, as I mentioned in the comment you quoted, the christfascists and nationalists would have been kept in check like they were in the USSR.

tankies

Meaningless term; it’s “woke” but used against communists and scientific socialists instead of socially progressive libs. Nice way to shut down discussion about economic inequality like how chuds use “woke” to shut down those for social inequality. Sounds cool tho

and they hate when you expose them.

“Lemmy Tankie EXPOSED (Gone Wrong)” lmao

No I don’t mind you asking about stuff you’re confused about so long as you do it in good faith, which this might not be ig.

I recommend Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts And Reds, and Albert Szymanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Including Comparisons with the U.S.A) if you want to learn more.

Second Thought also has a great well-sourced video on it.

Your anti-USSR bias comes from the decades of anti-communist and red scare propaganda in the imperial core.

Also, do you not agree with my statement that the christfascist church’s influence has increased far too much because of the illegal dissolution of the USSR? I’d think anyone with common sense would support keeping the right wingers and their regressive ideologies in check.