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The Russian one improved greatly the life of the Russian people. They ended living oppressed under a dictatorship, but it was miles better than starving under t
by Maken 11y ago
The Russian one improved greatly the life of the Russian people. They ended living oppressed under a dictatorship, but it was miles better than starving under the Tsar's monarchy.
- akavel 11y agoAre you trying to be ironic? You're aware that they (and numerous neighbour countries) ended up starving oppressed under communist dictatorship, as opposed to starving oppressed under Tsar's monarchy, yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#NKVD_activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#NKVD_activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_political_repressions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_political_repressions etc, etc...
- emp_zealoth 11y agoI'd like to call you on that. Russian communism led to gigantic starvation and mass executions (pre WWII), i believe the biggest one yet
- patkai 11y agoI absolutely agree with you, but it's worth mentioning that communism brought some temporal and local improvements to the lives of some people that is used for arguing for communism. E.g. an individual from a poor family who could study engineering was probably satisfied with the changes. But the big picture is pretty bad anyway.