I’m doing a presentation on the soviet union for school soon and i would like to know all your opinions on this.

I’ve got: an over-bloated bureaucracy (which was prone to corruption), rural poverty (which is very unfair as basically all countries have rural poverty- difference is that some countries actually help these people), and a lacking light industry that led to economic dissatisfaction from the populace.

I might share the PowerPoint here for your feedback although its very small as its for a vocational exam that is only a few minutes

    • SaddamHussein24
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      2 years ago

      I mean the thing is they were invited tho, and not by the guy they deposed. Besides not helping Afghanistan would have been terribly wrong. You cant just allow the west to massacre people, behead teachers, kidnap and rape schoolgirls, all this in your brotherly socialist neighbour, and do nothing about it. We can discuss whether x or y strategy would have been the best one, but helping the DRA was the right internationalist choice. The afghan people chose socialism freely in 1978, without any soviet help or coercion, since the Daud Khan regime was a USSR ally so they had no reason to overthrow him. In response, they faced unprecedented US aggression. Extremist death squads, school raids, girls being kidnapped into sex slavery, soviet engineers working on infrastructure and their families being beheaded and their heads left on poles, absolute barbarism. Ignoring that when you have the 2nd strongest military in the world is antimarxist.