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talkpolitics2022-08-31 08:14 pm
mahnmut) wrote in talkpolitics2022-08-31 08:14 pm
RIP Gorby
Rest in peace Comrade Gorbachev. He tried to give the USSR some actual democracy and transparency and rid it of its dictatorship and cruel treatment of its own people.
Too bad he wasn't successful because we would've probably seen a system closer to an actual socialist system (one OF, FOR and BY the people).
He tried, yet he failed. None of it was his fault however, it was the fault of the cruel power-hungry tyrants that hijacked the USSR for their own benefit, one of the worst ones being Stalin.
Gorbachev was what a better communist could've looked like.
If the reforms actually worked, today the USSR might've been just as democratic and free as the West, if not even more so.
Too bad he wasn't successful because we would've probably seen a system closer to an actual socialist system (one OF, FOR and BY the people).
He tried, yet he failed. None of it was his fault however, it was the fault of the cruel power-hungry tyrants that hijacked the USSR for their own benefit, one of the worst ones being Stalin.
Gorbachev was what a better communist could've looked like.
If the reforms actually worked, today the USSR might've been just as democratic and free as the West, if not even more so.