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And of course the Soviet Union is remembered for its admirable press freedom…
Not
Stalin killed Lenin and proceeded to make the USSR into a totalitarian dictatorship…
on top of that, the versions of events that we learned are heavily shaped by propaganda….
personally, i think Marxism is fatally flawed, as it calls for a brief adjustment period of totalitarianism just to make sure the capitalists don’t take the country back after the revolution, and every time some group attempts it, the ruling party never lets go of the totalitarianism “phase”….
but that doesn’t mean that lenin and marx never said some good things… they said a lot of great things
this all or nothing shit is why we never progress… there is no country or system of government human being that was all good. we must learn from their failures and successes and create something new