>>28549674That's because there wasn't a single second where a socialist state wasn't being actively undermined by glowies and imperialists
>>28549866Sure but the above is why it was an existential consideration to produce them at the expense of everything else. You have to admit, it takes a lot to take basically a failed potato state in 1920 or so, and hang as the other world power for that long. Compromises are made. Their gambit was that they could get through to the other side