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Soviets might just really be bad at everything. Capitalism didn't work for them either.

• riehwvfbk 2y ago
  The non-working capitalism just kicked the collective butt of the entirety of NATO. Previously in Vietnam the non-working communism did the same.
• bdangubic 2y ago
  If it wasn’t for the Soviets you’d be writing this comment in German :) And Capitalism does not work for USA or anywhere else either (except for very few people at the very top of the pyramid (scheme…)
  • kubb 2y ago
    They’re good at throwing their population into the meat grinder, sure.
  • jajko 2y ago
    They really did the bulk of Wehrmacht killing on European mainland. But they didn't collapse only due to massive US support, be it in armament, equipment, medicine etc. Absolutely massive. Also it was basically due to bad German planning and preparation for winter, not some soviet strategic brilliance, which was very hard to be found on eastern front, just meatwave after meatwave till german machine gun barrels literally melted. You could see tons of US equipment during WWII reels on eastern front including heavy machinery, soviets tried desperately to remove such footage (just like photos of soviet soldiers wearing 3+ watches on each hand... err borrowed from friendly locals) but truth has this behavior of seeping back to light. Capitalism works pretty well in any moral society actually, much better than any other system thats for sure.
• FirmwareBurner 2y ago
  What they got wasn't capitalism, it was kleptocracy.
  • scotty79 2y ago
    If you look how capitalism is actually implemented, it always has bigger or smaller kleptocratic component.
    • FirmwareBurner 2y ago
      Of course, but it's the proportion of that that makes all the difference.
      • scotty79 2y ago
        I agree. But that might be why soviets are bad at everything. They always get this proportion wrong, in all systems.