If Russian Imperialism not existing would make that much of a difference, then just imagine how the world would be if Western Imperialism didn’t exist.
Yeah; like Russia has been effectively preventing Europe from developing this whole time.
They developed not just in peace, but in power and they squandered all that protecting wealth and preventing their people from having a life unfamiliar to poverty and precarity.
Again. China is doing god damned great. The fuck is the US’s excuse? Where’s my trans continental hyper train; Uncle Sam? Where is it you dead beat worthless dog?!
China if the CPC never abandoned Mao Zedong Thought:
So basically in the next decade?
That’s Beijing now
IM NOT OWNED!!! IM NOT OWNED
Indeed, we only own Japanese imperialist bandits on this sub
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This building is so unreal that despite knowing i still take the photos for sci-fi every single time for a second.
Forget about a trans-continental high speed train, my local city couldn’t even maintain a citywide trolley system it used to have back in the 1950’s.
Same in mine! The map of our current LRT and the streetcar system is incredibly depressing. The streecars went everywhere; the LRT is, essentially, a straight line from North to South.
They developed not just in peace, but in power and they squandered all that protecting wealth and preventing their people from having a life unfamiliar to poverty and precarity.
Are you talking about USSR or any other period of Russian history?
Im talking about the west. For all their dominance and colonialism; they have very little to show for it but unhappy legions of the working class.
Ah, got it. Thank you
World if USA and their puppets didn’t exist
Really not thrilled about the fact that western propaganda has been making healthy use of the term imperialism lately
It’s the term they weren’t able to completely distort yet, so as socialism is on the rise worldwide they need to make it completely illegible for their people.
They take oeft wing theory and appropriate it, just like everything else.
A liberal crying about second world imperialism makes me wanna touch them within glass coated fists.
I wish imperialism was a magical word that when incorrectly used by libs and westerners; it would conjure EVERY pain sensation the human body is capable of and that body feels all those pains at the end od every nerve in that body.
Until. They. Fucking. Understand.
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*war by folks wall Street doesn’t like
Ftfy. It’s somehow never imperialism when USA or France does it
Well… It is to them, but for them it doesn’t matter or they understand there is fuck all they can do about it. So turning conservative little countries into rubble and chaos is the next best thing for them.
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There’s already a word used to describe how Central and Eastern Europe would look if so‐called “Russian imperialism” didn’t exist.
It’s called Lebensraum.
Can already imagine some of these types going “so we’d get to live like Germany? That’s paradise yo!” or believing the US would’ve saved them…
“Oh look, talking soap” - my favorite answer to that types.
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I’ve met people who think this unironically
So a Great October Socialist Revolution just before Peter the Great’s coronation as Emperor early November 1721?
Count me in as one of them!No, that’s not what I meant
I know ;-)
But it’s more fun to rub in everyone the truth then to lay down defeatist and go along with the majority’s misguided narrative.Fair
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Almost as brain dead as the take from some Polish nationalist who complained that Russians dared to fight back during times of troubles and actually kicked interventionist out of their country and didn’t let them to build their cozy empire.
Central and Eastern Europe looks like that?
Mostly like that to be honest, more or less average street in every town and city:
And people blame that ^ on communism and/or Russia
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I’ll take your word on that, never been that deep into the Core
That particular pic is from Łódź (ŁKS grafitti for the local football team), city that fell under deindustrailization hard and as consequence it do looks a bit dilapidated, but most smaller cities and big parts of bigger ones looks exactly like this.
Btw that’s pre-socialist building, from style i would guess it’s classic “kamienica” from around 1900 plus minus 30 years.
Thanks for the info!
It looks similar. Let’s be honest. Everyone condemns thr shape of the square.
It’s basically equating utiliarian square brutalism with oppression.
Taking nothing into account that such architecture is based on post war French and English architecture.
And for the soviets? If it works; they would use it.
I recently walked past the former headquarters of the European Central Bank. Just 200m away the streets look worse than that.
Belgium looks like both this and the pic in the post.
Hell, turning a block in Antwerp can mean the difference between this and futurism. And it’s a good city to live in, despite looking grungy in some parts.
Sure, in bigger cities there are very moden looking places even in Poland. As there are absolute slums, if not for the climate and mass socialist building we would drown in favelas already. Such posts like in OP imply averageness though.
as a polish man if Russian imperialism didn’t exist it would of been Polish instead ether way both bad and smelly
Yeah, just looks at the size of lithuanian empire before the union. And Commonwealth has been pushing east very often. If Zygmunt III wasn’t such an utter fanatic dumbass it could pretty easily ended in actual 3 nations union.
If I recall correctly, didn’t their shit get fucked up when the Soviet Union fell? Now they’re overrun with fascists so….
didn’t their shit get fucked up when the Soviet Union fell
Understatement of the year
The type of stuff that makes me want to cross over to thirld world socialism.
Already there…
How’s it feel?
Eh it has ups and downs
A lot of Ls, but it makes the Ws all the sweeter.
Anti-colonial Soviet Russia from 1721 onward,
no joining the eight nation league,
no violation of the trade blockade with the UK during Napoleon,
neutral during world war I.
Liberating all of Europe (except UK) during world war II.
Winning the cold war with more allies.
Central and Eastern Europe would still be communist today.Baku and Astana do sort of look like this actually
Some parts of Moscow too
This picture is just plastic/glass biofuturism
But it looks nice, at least in these colours. And that’s what matters in the current system - superficial good look. Remember all those posts on the likes of r/urbanhell with poorly lit Soviet era apartment blocks? Yeah.
They can only speak in memes
