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I'm having trouble parsing this. I find confusing as it is thoroughly interesting. Is it the outcome of Soviet culture pre-communist rule or a result of the com
by vagrantJin 6y ago
I'm having trouble parsing this. I find confusing as it is thoroughly interesting. Is it the outcome of Soviet culture pre-communist rule or a result of the communist ideology?
Say you had 4 decade veterans/experts in a particular field, a couple die from cholera or TB or something. How is that doctrine a net positive for the state?
- helge9210 6y agoBecause state goal is not the advancement of the particular field(s). State goal is to maintain (build) communism within particular county (USSR) and Warsaw Pact block. Smart people opposed (unrealistic) party goals. so their death was net positive for Communist state. For details see multiple waves of intelligentsia cleansing during 1920-40.
- ineedasername 6y agoIt would only have been a net positive in terms of relative support for the political apparatus, and even then only in the short term. Retaining political control would still ultimately rely on infrastructure and military force driven by technical support & advancement. Then again it may very well have been such short term thinking that contributed to the ultimate collapse of Soviet Russia.