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stupidpol has a struggle session over how great life actually was in the USSR

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/r7q3zu/was_anybody_else_taught_that_the_ussr_was_a?sort=controversial

Which is ironic as there was a thread a few days ago pooping on liberals for not paying attention in history class.

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country goes red

every capitalist nation (the most powerful countries in the world) cuts them off from trading and resources

nation fails

communism gets blamed

every time

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bait but

The USSR bought a lot of grain from the US? And didn’t they have an entire sphere of influence and domain to command or trade with?

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So the capitalist societies can function just fine without commies, but the commie countries turn into heck holes if they can't trade with the selfish, evil capitalists?

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Any 'minority' society will fail if a massive majority shuts them out completely, regardless of political leanings.

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So the only people commies could trade with were communist china, the country that fielded the largest army in WW2, all of eastern Europe, and all non aligned nations?

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Maybe that just shows it's a pipe dream idea that can't function in the real world that we live in

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