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You point about about the plight of the poor in any country including the US should be taken seriously. You comparison with Stalinist USSR is completely insane.

You point about about the plight of the poor in any country including the US should be taken seriously. You comparison with Stalinist USSR is completely insane. Go read The Gulag Archipelago. Please.

danharaj 8y ago
That's not a book of scholarship. Read an actual historical account of the gulag system. Trust me, its depressing enough without literary embellishment. And then compare it to the atrocities that established western capitalism. Fairly, I recommend.
AnarchoYeasty 8y ago
Why would I read western propaganda? I'm not defending the Soviet Union, simply pointing out that the horrors y'all make up about them are largely made up, and that the United States does every one of them, if not worse, both to our own citizens and to people around the world. You think the Soviet Union was bad at silencing their enemies? The US assassinated Fred Hampton for telling black people they don't have to bow down anymore. They assassinated Allende in Chile because he had the audacity of being democratically elected and a socialist, and then backed a fascist (Pinochet) and helped him become one of the most murderous dictators in history. In Iran when the Mossadegh was democratically elected, he told BP gas that their monopoly on Iranian Oil was over. In return the US orchestrated a coup, installed a brutal dictator, and set up the Iranian secret police that we now view as the epitomy of evil. Eventually you are going to have to wake up and realize that the West has been the largest force for evil in the history of the world. And I'm not talking about Hitler.
- waynecochran 8y ago
  Western Propaganda? Are you serious?
  - monocasa 8y ago
    https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovskaya-84-is-dead-solzhenitsyn-s-wife-questioned-gulag.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovska...

You point about about the plight of the poor in any country including the US should be taken seriously. You comparison with Stalinist USSR is completely insane. Go read The Gulag Archipelago. Please.

danharaj 8y ago

That's not a book of scholarship. Read an actual historical account of the gulag system. Trust me, its depressing enough without literary embellishment. And then compare it to the atrocities that established western capitalism. Fairly, I recommend.

AnarchoYeasty 8y ago

Why would I read western propaganda? I'm not defending the Soviet Union, simply pointing out that the horrors y'all make up about them are largely made up, and that the United States does every one of them, if not worse, both to our own citizens and to people around the world. You think the Soviet Union was bad at silencing their enemies? The US assassinated Fred Hampton for telling black people they don't have to bow down anymore. They assassinated Allende in Chile because he had the audacity of being democratically elected and a socialist, and then backed a fascist (Pinochet) and helped him become one of the most murderous dictators in history. In Iran when the Mossadegh was democratically elected, he told BP gas that their monopoly on Iranian Oil was over. In return the US orchestrated a coup, installed a brutal dictator, and set up the Iranian secret police that we now view as the epitomy of evil. Eventually you are going to have to wake up and realize that the West has been the largest force for evil in the history of the world. And I'm not talking about Hitler.

waynecochran 8y ago
Western Propaganda? Are you serious?
- monocasa 8y ago
  https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovskaya-84-is-dead-solzhenitsyn-s-wife-questioned-gulag.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovska...