• rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    13 days ago

    The Soviets really did a number on the perception of communism all around the world. Thinly veiled state capitalism ain’t it.

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      13 days ago

      That’s more what the Chinese are doing these days. Russia was pure centralized planning and control under an autocracy. The theory being that the central authority would be abolished once communism was achieved. Because everyone knows autocrats easily give up their absolute control of a country.