From the book “Stalin” the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo

  • 小莱卡
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    6 days ago

    The goebbels section is also great. Before the invasion he boasts about being the largest deployment in history and about victory being inminent, a couple month later he says their intelligence on the soviet union was completely wrong.

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    7 days ago

    weird how if you set up a plan to do a thing, arrange the materials ahead of time for this thing, and get dedicated motivated people on board looking forward to a better future

    the thing just gets accomplished. people feel good when they make a lasting mark on the world

    truly baffling, inscrutable alien stuff huh

    didn’t even have to have twenty middlemen siphoning away resources and cut-throat competition and risk of starvation and homelessness to motivate people

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    7 days ago

    With respect to Russia, it is incontestable that Stalin raised the standard of living. The Russian people don’t go hungry.

    Wow I can’t believe Hitler was a red fash tankie

  • LeZero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    Nice quote, I also loved that audio of Hitler being astonished by the number of tanks produced by the Soviet Union

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        i just find the idea that hitler having these subliminal almost-breakthrus about his own vision of the world being confounded at something like, [reading it again] a war enemy not showing its hand when it knows its people are desperate and that the enemy can have ears anywhere, maybe that rail line doesn’t need to be known about. Maybe it’s not reasonable to assume your newest map reflects a full picture of reality. Almost conceding maybe his idea of the value of these people is based on bad assumptions, but between the insane coctail of drugs he was on, and being powered by purely irrational things, he never got all the way there long enough for it to manifest as anything but brief confusion in private.

        it’s the allegory of the cave but it’s an idiot doing genocide and fighting a two front war and just assuming that reality is wholly reflected by the information brought to him and the worldview within his mind.

        there’s probably an element of the “mapmakers can’t keep up” too, because we know how intense soviet industrial action was at this time, but I am seeing a man who assumes he is culling a herd of swine, because he did think like that, and being challenged but not having his ontological priors at all broken by the challenge lol

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    7 days ago

    Fascists think their enemies are ontologically incapable of doing anything. Within the sphere you’re not really allowed to say “the soviet union did something good or productive” without following it up with "and that’s why they’ll collapse immediately " or “but at what cost” after

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      7 days ago

      Good thing the west doesn’t fall into that trap with any other nations! They’d be sure to lose any conflicts they start with them otherwise.