From the book “Stalin” the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo
The goebbels section is also great. Before the invasion he boasts about being the largest deployment in history and about victory being inminent, a couple month later he says their intelligence on the soviet union was completely wrong.
Always funny to see liberals and fascists mald at uncontestable material reality.
Fascists when they discover privatizing everything doesn’t work, but collective organising does
Fascists think their enemies are ontologically incapable of doing anything. Within the sphere you’re not really allowed to say “the soviet union did something good or productive” without following it up with "and that’s why they’ll collapse immediately " or “but at what cost” after
Good thing the west doesn’t fall into that trap with any other nations! They’d be sure to lose any conflicts they start with them otherwise.
That “We come across railway lines that aren’t on the maps” really reads like someone who has just realized that he will die there. Just pure horror. Sucks to be him I guess!
With respect to Russia, it is incontestable that Stalin raised the standard of living. The Russian people don’t go hungry.
Wow I can’t believe Hitler was a red fash tankie
I mean he was so pathetic that I think the entire reason Hitler thought Stalin was Aryan (this is not a joke) was to reconcile with that fact
Hasn’t Hitler heard of the holosomor!
This Hitler dude needs to read some Anne Applebaum!
Semi-related but her husband is gonna be running for the president of Poland and I already hate it. He’s gonna do about as well as the Democratic party in the US.
Horseshoe theory confirmed!
Now do you think chanbrains will stop making “dae le communism le failure?!”
Dude. The internet’s favorite guy admitted inferiority to the Soviets.
My favourite of those memes is the picture of breadlines. People were starving to death everywhere, but the soviets did the bad thing by… giving out bread? The absence of breadlines in the US didn’t mean that people didn’t need it, it just means the US didn’t even provide it.
This is besides the point that there are and were breadlines in the U.S.
Yeah it doesn’t make sense in any way. Aren’t the pictures of soviet breadlines from the middle of the great depression or something? I guess that’s why the CIA cooked up “whataboutism” as a deflection
There were breadlines in the 80’s particularly during peristroika as well, but again, there were breadlines in the U.S. as well.
And if people think capitalism = no scarcity is lying to themselves.
Look at the housing crisis, might as well say there’s a “houseline”. There’s literally a shortage of jobs, so I can make a case there’s a “jobline” look at how many businesses and government services there are in literally finding jobs. None of that wouldn’t exist if jobs were abundant.
weird how if you set up a plan to do a thing, arrange the materials ahead of time for this thing, and get dedicated motivated people on board looking forward to a better future
the thing just gets accomplished. people feel good when they make a lasting mark on the world
truly baffling, inscrutable alien stuff huh
didn’t even have to have twenty middlemen siphoning away resources and cut-throat competition and risk of starvation and homelessness to motivate people
Hitler having a Skinner moment:
“Could I be wrong and making a gigantic mistake?”
“No, it’s reality that’s wrong”
Can’t stop myself from picturing Hitler bawling over some random bottle cap factory in Chelyabinsk.
Yes I’ve posted this three times in three years and I’ll post it again next year too!
Central planning
Nice quote, I also loved that audio of Hitler being astonished by the number of tanks produced by the Soviet Union
Lol do you have a link to that one? I never tire of Hitler getting dunked on by the Soviets
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=oET1WaG5sFk
It’s basically the only (secret) recording of Hitler with a normal voice, and he talks about how they underestimated the Soviets lol
In awe of the Chad Stalin
5 year plans work, folks. Everyone keeps saying it.
