Forced collectivization in the USSR produced a country-wide deliberate famine, which in places like Ukraine and Kazakhstan verged into genocidal territory. The AAA did nothing of the sort, unless you're claiming FDR killed 10 million Americans and the Commie history writers wrote this out of the history books.
The massive military build-up only started before the war in the FDR Administration, we did not have anything of the sort into the fall of 1942. The USSR, by contrast, had the largest army in the world before WWII (and spent the first years of WWII showing why quantity minus quality is a handicap. Namely in that this huge army was saddled with obsolete weaponry, and that its leadership thanks to the Purges had no idea what it was doing.
Centralized planning is not the same as the New Deal, the Gosplan worked on a very different pattern. Namely that it literally specified to factories in Bumfuck, Siberia, to produce Quantity X or it'd be a bullet in the brain. The New Deal, by contrast, focused on public works and the establishment of a skeleton welfare state. Nowhere did FDR tell General Motors to make 200,000,000 automobiles or he'd ship them to die in interior Nevada. Stalin, by contrast, did this quite a bit and paid the price for it in 1939-42.
My inability to see that reflects reading on the Reconstruction era, and repeatedly raising points about the White League and Red Shirts and things like the Hamburg and Colfax Massacres you have never answered at any point, which leads me to the conclusion that you are either approving of said massacres by omission or you're selectively illiterate. Because I have brought them up to you in virtually all of these threads (saying virtually because it may not have been in alll of them and there has been deafening silence from you.
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Date: 15/3/12 01:30 (UTC)The massive military build-up only started before the war in the FDR Administration, we did not have anything of the sort into the fall of 1942. The USSR, by contrast, had the largest army in the world before WWII (and spent the first years of WWII showing why quantity minus quality is a handicap. Namely in that this huge army was saddled with obsolete weaponry, and that its leadership thanks to the Purges had no idea what it was doing.
Centralized planning is not the same as the New Deal, the Gosplan worked on a very different pattern. Namely that it literally specified to factories in Bumfuck, Siberia, to produce Quantity X or it'd be a bullet in the brain. The New Deal, by contrast, focused on public works and the establishment of a skeleton welfare state. Nowhere did FDR tell General Motors to make 200,000,000 automobiles or he'd ship them to die in interior Nevada. Stalin, by contrast, did this quite a bit and paid the price for it in 1939-42.
My inability to see that reflects reading on the Reconstruction era, and repeatedly raising points about the White League and Red Shirts and things like the Hamburg and Colfax Massacres you have never answered at any point, which leads me to the conclusion that you are either approving of said massacres by omission or you're selectively illiterate. Because I have brought them up to you in virtually all of these threads (saying virtually because it may not have been in alll of them and there has been deafening silence from you.