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kravietz 🦇 · 51w
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@kravietz 🦇 I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anybody who says anything like that. There may have been good intentions at the start of the revolution, but it was clear those ended long before the Second World War. By that point, the Soviet system was transparently rife with corruption, and they never made any real effort to fix it. By the 80s, the crony capitalism was embarrassingly obvious.
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kravietz 🦇 · 51w
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