What about those Mercedes vans that yall have

Yeah basically

I mean it’s also been the motto of DR

nothingburger

Good leader, especially for his anti-imperialist stance while being in the west during the Cold War, can’t imagine that was easy.

Unrelated but how was BSPP rule in the 60-80s?

AI slop

Aren’t they apart of AES?

His son became a politician in the DDR tho

I’d say it came full circle, first these communists were fighting against the corrupt monarchy, now those same guerillas are now sitting atop millions of wealth from corruption when the average Nepali can’t find employment, and the infra in the country is falling apart.

There are dedicated lists for every country that has existed, but even for the deported peoples of the USSR, namely the Chechens the vast majority of those who lived & worked in both socialism and capitalism miss the USSR and its progress in free education, healthcare, peace, and development, which was afforded to everyone, absent after the restoration of capitalism. Purely anecdotal, but in my time in Azerbaijan in an ethnically Dagestani villiage, there was a portrait of Stalin in the lodge, despite the fact that their ethnicity was deported similar to the Chechens.

After the fall of Artsakh, Azeri forces have full control over the native Armenian population with no resistance, which is pretty 1 sided

Although viewed by many scholars and laymen alike as an authoritative account of the crimes of Communism, The Black Book of Communism has since its publication date been criticised by its readers and writers alike for its methodology. Namely, the book includes among its “one hundred million victims” Nazi collaborators in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (many of whom served in the Waffen-SS by the book’s own admission) as well as comparing the expected population growth before a famine to the actual population growth (in essence counting people who were never born). In addition, the editors also confused the per-thousand symbol (‰) with the percent sign when translating from French to English, multiply some death tolls by 10 times.

The book’s own authors criticize the historical accuracy of its conclusions:

Jean‐Louis Margolin and Nicolas Werth reproach Stéphane Courtois considering ‘the criminal dimension as one of the proper ones of the communist system’s set’, he writes in his text. ‘This results in taking away the phenomenon’s historic character’, claims Jean‐Louis Margolin. ‘Even if the communist breeding ground can lead to mass crimes, the line between theory and practice is inevident, contrary to what Stéphane Courtois says.’ Disputing the ‘approximations’, ‘contradictions’, and ‘clumsinesses that make sense’, the two authors reproach Stéphane Courtois’s ‘obsession to reach one hundred million deaths’. — Le Monde

Margolin and Werth furthermore rebuked Courtois in an article published in Le Monde, stating that they disagreed with his vitriolic introduction and its political agenda. Margolin and Werth both disavowed the book, recognizing that Courtois was obsessed with reaching a body count of a hundred million and consequently leading to careless and biased ‘scholarship’. Courtois also composed the book’s introduction in secret, refusing to share it for his other contributors. They both rejected Courtois’s equivalence of German fascism with communism, with Werth telling Le Monde that ‘death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union.’

If countries like India and South Africa are pushed further into the BRICSphere, I hope it lasts longer

The US is positioning Rwanda as their ‘African Israel’, as they did with Zaire previously. Kagame has been ruling since 2000, apparently FPR (His party) used to be socialist, before they pivoted to neoliberalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Meskhetian_Turks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Chechens_and_Ingush

I can do the same and dump a list of massacres and population transfers before & after the fall of the USSR and it would be far greater than all these lists combined. If so called ‘Russification’ was the goal why would Lenin and Stalin create separate constituent states for the ethnicities of the USSR? I admit that resettlement is bad, but in resolving the contradictions of creating ethnic states in a former imperialist & colonialist empire they must take steps to avoid intra-ethnic conflict between the states (Which dates back centuries), which when they stopped doing in the mid to late 80s, led to all of the conflicts seen in the former USSR today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Cossackization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

“According to Nicolas Werth, one of the authors of The Black Book of Communism…” are you even trying at this point?

Holodomor was a famine, common in the area for hundreds of years before the USSR, it was also the last

“An estimated 800,000 to 1,200,000 people died during the purges of the 1930s” If such a large amount of people died, can you see it in population statistics?

Also, it’s a conflict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict

Take more than a surface look at this ‘conflict’

Azerbaijan is committing ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. This would have never happened in the USSR

Have fun paying it

Social Democracy in action

How is KSCM? Are its members mainly pensioners?

Arab unity in supporting Israel

JSP used to be a massive force in Japanese politics, but how were they pushed out of sight to irrelevance?