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7/18/2025, 8:32:27 PM
>>17852355
Yes, the communist empire did indeed dwarf the empires of Napoleon, Alexander, Hitler and Genghis Khan. But while people who dont approve of those guys are still able to acknowledge the sheer level of accomplishment, it seems we're too shellshocked to do that with what the Bolsheviks did accomplish in 40 years.
>economy stagnates the moment they're finished rebuilding
It stagnated under Breshnev. Keep in mind though that every once dominant european power of the last 200 years (UK, US, Italy, France) had banded together to stop communist expansion - through an arms race, and through economic warfare.
Capitalist historians like to try to establish as conventional knowledge that the USSRs economy "stagnated", but what actually happened was that the USSR lost a (cold) war against a unified capitalist West, that was stronger.
Yes, the communist empire did indeed dwarf the empires of Napoleon, Alexander, Hitler and Genghis Khan. But while people who dont approve of those guys are still able to acknowledge the sheer level of accomplishment, it seems we're too shellshocked to do that with what the Bolsheviks did accomplish in 40 years.
>economy stagnates the moment they're finished rebuilding
It stagnated under Breshnev. Keep in mind though that every once dominant european power of the last 200 years (UK, US, Italy, France) had banded together to stop communist expansion - through an arms race, and through economic warfare.
Capitalist historians like to try to establish as conventional knowledge that the USSRs economy "stagnated", but what actually happened was that the USSR lost a (cold) war against a unified capitalist West, that was stronger.
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