I agree, German kids could have resisted, there was the White Rose and shit, and let’s not forget the thousands of leftists thrown into the camps. It’s not like people didn’t know what they were doing was wrong, they just didn’t want to take the risk of opposing the regime like the peers did. And to forgive them, punishes those who did resist. That’s why Nazi collaborators deserve a swift execution along side the true believers.

Legally? the cops are going to be looking at and around your commune for drugs so they can use it as an excuse to try to shut you down.

Regardless of what you think about China, you need to realize that you, as an American, do not get to dictate to over a billion people about how they should organize their society. Chinese people can handle their own affairs, if they desired the overthrow of the CPC, they could make that happen. They by and large do not desire this, in fact the CPC is broadly popular with tens of millions of Chinese citizens. Do not even try to dismiss that fact with some foolishness like “propaganda” or “brainwashing” ect.

You know nothing about Chinese life or how an average citizen feels about their government there, reading foreign press doesn’t offer any insight into that. The nation-state of China is one of the oldest and most influential human institutions in history, and they will not be ordered around by some imperialist anglos again. I suggest you find a way to reconcile that with your personal opinions about them, and recognize that 1.4 billion people do not and will never have to care about you or what you think about them. So either give up your leftist aesthetics and just accept you are an imperialist, or figure out how to treat Chinese people as an equal competitor if not a friend.

Probably was Aldrich Aims, he’s is one of the best known American double agents and passed a bunch of lie detectors. He did it for money though so he’s not as cool as the Cambridge Five in my opinion.

Kendall Myers is his wife Gwendolyn were very based however. They worked for the state department and passed secrets to the Cuban government for 30 years out of ideological loyalty.

According to a “law enforcement official”, they were “true believers” in the Cuban system.[11] The United States federal affidavit quoted a diary entry by Kendall Myers as saying, “I can see nothing of value that has been lost by the revolution. The revolution has released enormous potential and liberated the Cuban spirit”,[11] and referred to Fidel Castro as “one of the great political leaders of our time.”[13] Other entries quoted reference a comparison of health care in the United States and healthcare in Cuba, and “complacency about the poor” in the United States.[11]

Unfortunately they caught him and he is now locked up at ADX Florence supermax facility, where they put all the terrorists.

I have a premonition that a socialist America will end up having to fight a fundamentalist Mormon insurgency in the rocky mountains

It allowed them to intercept ships to check if they were slave trading. While they were inspecting the ship, the British officers could use the pretext to find other things wrong, ie smuggling, piracy, desertion, ect. Then they could seize your property or arrest you in some cases. Sort of like how American cops can use a busted taillight to pull you over, then arrest you if he find drugs during that.

The navy did also free a significant number of slaves this way too so it wasn’t just an abuse of power, but it also signaled to everyone that Britain was the dominant naval power in Europe now.

While this was not the sole reason, it should be noted that English anti-slavery laws gave their navy a pretext to board and search vessels for “inspections”. With the UK quickly becoming the world’s dominant naval power, this gave them lots of power over foreign shipping and trade, especially in the Atlantic.

I agree, think stuff like the Leningrad Affair was incredibly stupid on Stalin’s part. Like bruh you’re gonna die soon anyway maybe don’t purge thousands of your most popular cadres? Those guys would have been useful a few decades down the road.

Party should have thanked Stalin for his service throughout the 30s and 40s and then forcibly retired him post war in favor of Malenkov. Instead they let his brain melt which gave the Khrushchevites an opportunity to trash his entire legacy for a little temporary popular support, all while compromising the greater ideological project.

Hindsight is 20/20 and all though, and sticking with Stalin till death for stability’s sake probably looked like the best option at the time after the most destructive war in human history

Soviet Storm: WW2 in the east is pretty cool

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwGzY25TNHPC_SsXFcIH-ba0nWuNbHOM6

These guys also make great weekly videos about WW2, “in real time”

https://youtu.be/TRvzqDzgmPQ

At what point are we going step back as a society and realize this shit is pathetic? I’m sure our rivals don’t need to use softcore porn to meet their recruiting targets. This is some real imperial decay shit right here.

US military has been failing to hit it’s recruitment targets for years now. Mostly because American young people are too fat/insane/depressed/addicted to drugs to pass the basic physical and mental requirements, and not because of based reasons. It’s like only 20% of that age range is potentially healthy enough to serve which is kind of insane. Hope we won’t need to fight a big war soon lol

Maybe they think they can trick horny teenagers into getting into shape and joining the military if they believe there is some hot gurl waiting for them. I doubt it.

9/11 was an occult ritual to destroy gender

ah yes, the famous twin towers of gender

I’ll go ahead and say it was worse in Stalin’s Russia

wow so brave. It was worse to live in a unindustrialized backwater that was recovering from invasion and civil war than it is to live 100 years later in a modern western service economy where your every want is catered to. Thank you liberalism for your insightful conclusions.

what we consider the foundations of modern liberalism (multiculturalism acceptance of gender and sexual minorities), is seen in Eastern Europe (specifically Russia/former USSR) as a controversial “western import”. It’s like the culture war in America, there are two different general cultural factions: westernizers and slavophiles. The disastrous economic changes the “westernizer” liberals brought to some parts of eastern Europe really soured their reputation. The Soviet Union and nostalgia for it are firmly culturally linked to the slavophiles, which are also consistently socially conservative on other issues (they are strongly tied to the Orthodox Church). In other eastern European countries like Poland the Catholic Church is still very dominant politically.

So I guess the answer to your question is that a lot of eastern Europeans are homophobic and racist because they think these ideas are just more western attempts to destroy their culture. People who are nostalgic for the Soviet Union tend to be anti-western for obvious reasons, and unfortunately cultural conditioning pushes them towards these backwards views.

part of that is that the whole faction is half-baked because it was rushed to release. Legion got the most cut from it, multiple towns beyond the Colorado were scrapped. And siding with the legion locks you out of a lot of other quests, so why bother?

Gorbachev wasn’t a full liberal he was a reformist and basically wanted social democracy. The liberal opposition that he at first championed with glastnost quickly outflanked him while the Soviet conservatives also hated him. His naivete and ineptitude destroyed the country by allowing liberal and nationalist forces (Yeltsin and his cronies) to tear the union apart from under his unsteady feet. The August coup was an attempt by the conservatives to force Gorbachev to fucking do something to save the country (several states had already declared independence at this point), but he couldn’t even be assed to take a side so the conservative had to try to throw together a new government overnight.

So he’s less of a sell out (that fits Yeltsin better) and more of a person who was just completely incapable of recognizing the situation and was overcome by more decisive forces.

Literally listening to some Ochs rn. (Miranda) He is so much better than Dylan, who fucking hangs out with Obama now.

yeah Sinclair said afterwards “I was aiming at the audience’s heart but missed and hit their stomach”

But tbh reading it I am not sure how you could come away thinking food safety was the main point of the book unless you were willfully ignoring the rest of The Jungle where the poor immigrant family gets scammed and exploited. Or maybe nice middle class people read that and think it’s just the will of the free market for the poor to be brutalized but eww I don’t want gross sausage.

yes but also hella nationalist which sometimes conflicted with the genocidal goals of the Nazis. Nazi used them early on as useful idiots.

on the positive side, ideal revolutionary conditions will arise alongside worsening material conditions. people just need to be in a position to seize the opportunity.