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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Socialist Realism was real bad

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

*clears throat*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNaV2Usxlc

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw

If Gorbachev had shown up at the Moscow Pizza Hut there wouldn't be any debate, they would've just lynched him.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Khruschev set the stage for the USSR to turn into a gerontocracy. :ussr:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


hosed up if true

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Sun Wu Kampf posted:

which is why the Soviet Union took literally a million casualties in the first couple of weeks after Operation Barbarossa started, because they weren't shocked or unprepared


yeah okay :allears:

Stalin didn't think the Red Army would be prepared to fight the Nazis for another couple years in 1940.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Fallen Hamprince posted:

also popular in russia: premature death due to alcoholism

Yeah, capitalism is pretty hosed up.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Typo posted:

Yes he was he thought the Nazis wouldn't start a war with the USSR until they finish off the UK first which meant a war in 1943-45 or something he didn't think Hitler would attack him in 1941 because he really did trust him to uphold the molotov-ribbentropp pact for at least couple more years

They knew the attack was coming that year, but Stalin thought it'd be in Ukraine while Soviet intelligence told him it was gonna be through Belarus. At least one thing Stalin got wrong.

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