Currently reading Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny and it’s been highly informative thus far. I wasn’t aware that Corn-man Khruschev was less a rightist than he was a deranged ultraleftist, passing along policy that a kindergartener may think “communism” is like dramatic wage-leveling and a damn near complete decentralization of state bureaucracy. This all led to way more financial and societal chaos than it did anything else. Yet… to his credit, he was a rather great internationalist. Not as great as Stalin, but he did try to stand behind the socialist and third world.