Hitler didn't really give him any other option, did he?
Killed millions of Nazis
And at least twice as many of his own people.
Provided housing and healthcare for all
Yeah, 5 familes sharing a kitchen and bathroom in a tiny concrete box with thin walls so that they can all hear eachother and report on eachother to the government.
One of the most powerful economies to ever exist
So powerful that western media had to be banned not for ideological reasons, but because it routinely showed that even poor westerners had their own cars - something unimaginable to the average Soviet citizen.
Most of them seem to get their education strictly from anecdotes/urban legends and blogs/news articles that they dont bother to question or analyze unless it is contrary to their established truth. Whether these sources are other rubes making it up or propaganda is a good question, but ultimately the same thing in any event. The propaganda game has never been easier that much is true.
According to a popular old meme, after occupying Lwów the Soviet soldiers didn't know that the poo goes to the loo in civilized society with plumbing so they were shitting straight out of windows and drinking from toilets.
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself.
Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness". In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America.
Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat.
Hitler didn't really give him any other option, did he?
And at least twice as many of his own people.
Yeah, 5 familes sharing a kitchen and bathroom in a tiny concrete box with thin walls so that they can all hear eachother and report on eachother to the government.
So powerful that western media had to be banned not for ideological reasons, but because it routinely showed that even poor westerners had their own cars - something unimaginable to the average Soviet citizen.
Lefties really don't live in the same reality as the rest of us.
Most of them seem to get their education strictly from anecdotes/urban legends and blogs/news articles that they dont bother to question or analyze unless it is contrary to their established truth. Whether these sources are other rubes making it up or propaganda is a good question, but ultimately the same thing in any event. The propaganda game has never been easier that much is true.
It's a surprise they don't talk to any former "comrades" from post-socialist countries.
it's even funnier when you compare them to the neigbors who wanted more socialist policies instead.
According to a popular old meme, after occupying Lwów the Soviet soldiers didn't know that the poo goes to the loo in civilized society with plumbing so they were shitting straight out of windows and drinking from toilets.
Supowerpower by 1940.
FDR industrialized the USSR. Stalin simply got the credit for it.
Stalin was kinda based though. He was a nationalist, hated leftists, and held the high score in Stacking Commies For Mommy until Mao took the crown.
Teamkills don't award points.
Weren't jeans a huge taboo in many totalitarian areas because it was seen as a symbol of western culture? Fucking pants were enough to get you killed.
They were, and still are. Jeans are illegal in North Korea.