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The more I learn about khrushchev the more I wonder about the competency of stalin for not purging the doofus.

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37 points

More and more people are saying this.

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Khrushchev: “What do you think was Stalin’s biggest failure?” ‎

Hoxha(?): “Not getting rid of you!”

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33 points

Kruschev sucked ass.

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He was literally the best communist leader of his era.

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It’s called the great patriotic war. Over 27 million people were murdered. In the war to save the motherland, nobody was made an exception to not take to the battlefield, not even the Communist party.

Not even mentioning people can at different points of their life be positive figures for socialism and at other points detractors to socialism. We can point to W.E.B Du Bois whom spent the majority of his life as a FDR-esque progressive and imperialism appreciator waited until he was moments from his death bed for his material conditions to lead him into understanding Marxism-Leninism was the correct ideological path. The inverse of being a positive actor for socialism then the conditions that a person finds themselves in can change them into a bad actor, detractor, or worse against socialism.

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22 points

Yes, but have you considered “corn man bad”?

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🌽🤔

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He did good with Cuba and some other international stuff but otherwise he should’ve been corncobbed

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20 points

khruschev used the purge to get into his position, exactly the problem with a mass hysteria not tempered with procedural obstacles. talented opportunists have a field day.

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WE COULD’VE HAD IT ALL

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45 points

I can get it

If you grew up dealing without computers, they would just seem like garbage cans with sparks coming out of them

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IBM was working with the Nazis and using computers to tabulate their genocide so it’s reasonable to not be terribly interested

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Eh. Stealing shit that works from your enemies is good and you should do it. Unlike most Nazi crap technology the IBM machines actually worked afaik.

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I highly doubt Khrushchev was thinking about IBM’s role in the holocaust during his visit. I mean, he was in the US, the country that invaded the USSR and wanted Germany to wipe it off the map.

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The sparks keep them warm :(

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Glad someone caught that reference

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3 points

Best me to it, had to scroll a bit to see

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5 points

The sparks keep them warm

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43 points

communism is when no mainframe

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I’m not saying he was right, but maybe Trotsky had a point that’s all I’m saying.

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