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I cannot tell if you're being facetious or not, but it was a fun paragraph to read as well. All communist regimes are Potemkin villages.
by betwixthewires 5y ago
I cannot tell if you're being facetious or not, but it was a fun paragraph to read as well. All communist regimes are Potemkin villages.
- hutzlibu 5y agoSputnik was quite real, though. As were lots of other things. For example the industrialisation of a big country that was in poor rural state before, while being blocked by the west. Not everyone in the sowjets was forced to be there. Idealism is a strong driving force, otherwise the sowjet empire would not have sustained itself for so long on propaganda alone.