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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And a relevant passage from This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That part about gold being impossible to depose didn't age well. ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] sukhmel 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, USSR wasn't really dictatorship of proletariat, but rather dictatorship of party leader(s) and the KGB

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The government in USSR very much represented the working class. Maybe actually spend a bit of time learning about USSR instead of regurgitating propaganda points you've memorized?

edit: I love how mad libs of lemmy get when faced with basic historical facts

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Hopefully we'll see one some day