Chat control is back on the agenda again and the works is kept in secret.
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You did not answer the question I asked. The information you provided is literally USSR cherry picked facts...
Did you USSR not have the ruling class that abused their power for personal gain?
Did USSR not make millions of people die for the benefit of the ruling class or just plain old genocide so they can maintain their power?
USSR demonstrably did not have a ruling class. If you look at the background of all the leaders of USSR they come from regular working class families.
Stalin's father was a shoemaker and his mother was a house cleaner.
Malenkov's father was a farmer and his mother was a daughter of a blacksmith.
Khrushchev's parents were poor Russian peasants.
Brezhnev's father was metalworker.
Andropov's father was a railway worker and his mother was a school teacher.
Chernenko was born to a poor family of Ukrainian ethnicity in the Siberian village.
Gorbachev's parents were peasants.
This clearly illustrates that USSR was a system of meritocracy where anyone could rise to the top through skill and work. And the reason this was possible was because USSR provided equal opportunity to all. Everyone had access to education, healthcare, housing, and work.
USSR had no ruling class as I've explained above, and USSR did not make millions of people die for anything. Maybe try engaging with reality instead of regurgitating nonsense uncritically. The fact that you chose to argue about a subject you're woefully ignorant about says volumes.
You still didn't answer the question. You are spouting chatgpt non answers.
I didn't ask you about socio economic background of the first generation of the Communist elites.
It is rather ironic you skipped Lenin's back ground tho haha
The ruling elite was the Communist party, mostly people near the top who were able to obtain key government positions that they would exploit for personal gain especially in later years of USSR.
In later years, nepotism was also was wide spread where children of the connected enjoy privileged status for employment and career advances and small things like vacations subsidies.
Mentioning that some guy was Ukrainian with in the regime while not mentioning Holodomor is OG 🤡
Must he nice being a communist while enjoying benefits of western society lol
He did, you just lack reading comprehension.
The Latter years of the USSR are notorious for being fucked, but this does not address the middle or early years.
Ah yes, the famine which affected all of the Soviet Union (and Kazakhstan more in terms of deaths per capita) which even the inventors of the narrative of genocide (Robert conquest) no longer call genocide.
I love the benefits western society! I get to enjoy half my income go to some landleech and fund war crimes in the middle east! I can't wait to see which climate change fueled disaster kills me, or maybe the fascist death squads will be the ones to do me in!