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debatable if it's slop or theory, but probably comrades will soon meet these arguments in the wild, and not that one has to abandon all theoretical considerations over geopolitical realism of the 20th century.

although it's all rather useless, treatlerism stays undefeated whether one thinks stalin was correct or not, got money from cia or not, decided to become culture critic or not

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[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't care about that but Stalin did a lot of stupid stuff on foreign policy

see Israel ,Yugoslavia - USSR split

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In a hyper-reductionist and simplified paragraph, Israel was an inevitability and the collective Soviet presidium made a gamble to try and create a socialist aligned or sympathetic government but ended up losing the bet.

And the Soviet-Yugoslav split was primarily along the lines of whether or not Yugoslavia should've pursued expansionist policies that would've caused even worse deterioration of diplomatic relations in the fragile peace between the western powers and the Warsaw Pact. If Yugoslavia was allowed to annex Albania, Greece, and federate with Bulgaria and create a Balkan Federation, would the growingly anti-communist paranoid western powers not have become more rabid in stomping down on communist movements around the world? Would the DPRK have been defeated, nuclear bombs authorized to be used in all conflicts to contain the red tide? Oceans of blood spilt for a Federation that couldn't even last a few scant years after the death of Tito?

Frankly, Soviet policy has plenty to criticize yet out of all the socialist powers that have existed and still exist to this day it still stands at the vanguard of the best possible actions taken in contrast to mistakes made.

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Frankly, Soviet policy has plenty to criticize yet out of all the socialist powers that have existed and still exist to this day it still stands at the vanguard of the best possible actions taken in contrast to mistakes made.

Cuba and the DPRK are not thhhat powerful yet unironically have had better foreign policy but I understand what you mean

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

I agree, it's an interesting enough occurrence to warrant studying what decisions, education, policies, etc. That sets them apart from other socialist states.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

I agree with you about Israel, but Yugoslavia was run by miserable revisionists from the get-go, despite this board inheriting reddit's "epic bacon tito" aesthetic sympathies.