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"What are we, a bunch of commies?"
I think the greatest irony is that they literally did that to their entire economic system. Isn't it strange that these 'old Soviet jokes' somehow continue to be told despite the Soviet Union not being around for 35 years nd now apply literally to post-Soviet states?
Like clockwork, they will always mention the extreme poverty and suffering of the 90s, after socialism, then blame it on soviet "authoritarianism" or some such. It's so absurd and I have no idea how anyone could believe it.
"This system collapsed and then afterwards everyone was poor and suffering, show how evil that system must have been, since everything got a lot worse afterwards!"
The projection is incredible. It has to be a coping-mechanism of sorts. They keep on shifting the focus to something long gone just so they don't have to face the rot they have been a part of all along.
I think it's more a complete and total and all-encompassing capitalist education, people are told nonstop that all the problems that Eastern Europe suffered from/continues to suffer from was the fault of the evil communists, even 30+ years on, it is still the USSR's fault that eastern europe is so much poorer than the west. People are taught this nonsense as "fact" from primary school onwards and are taught about the "evils of communism" and most just never question it because it is a simple easy answer for why things suck.
Very true, but there is always also this: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/.
It's an all encompassing education, but I do think partly it's also complicity. The reactions are often so emotional and knee-jerk.
It's sort of like Plato's cave. I don't blame them for all sitting there thinking that shadows on the wall are all there is, but when someone leaves and comes back, and tries to describe the alternative, the people shutting them down and calling them a liar are quite responsible for their own wilful ignorance.
That's a good point. Amerikkka is notoriously very strict about having high quality airplanes that don't have maintenance issues or design flaws.
Amerikkka, very famous for not punishing whistleblowers
Ukraine flag pfp making anti-Soviet joke
why aren't you at the front lines shithead
Except we literally did this under our modern day capitalism in the form of building a new plane and then sticking computers on it to make it fly like the old plane so they wouldn't have to train new pilots.
People died
This is how America becomes a third-rate country
The Cold War may have technically ended, but the entire world is still blaming the Soviet Union for everything that ever goes wrong, just like back then...
The specter of the USSR continues to haunt capitalism. What possibilities for the defeat of the empire exist can trace a huge portion of their survival and success directly to the Soviets and Leninism.
Lenin only slumbers.
Part of me wants to post that Simpsons clip.
But yeah. I mean, the Manifesto predicted this, it literally talks about the "spectre of communism".
(I'm also reminded of a political cartoon, not sure if it was drawn during the Cold War or was later commentary on the period and continued strategies.)
I legitimately love old soviet jokes
The funny thing is how much of the 21st century US you see reflected in them as the cartoonish caricature of the Soviets
One of my favourite instances of "was a caricature during the Cold War, is somehow more accurate nowadays" is Soviet made anti America propaganda. Especially the stuff about war, the Military Industrial Complex, and inequality. The caricatures were probably a little absurd when they were made. Today? Accurate, if harsh, satire.