You'll never hear me defend the USSR. But first of all, the Tsarist government was also shit, and second of all, the Communists were not solely responsible for its destruction — learn the difference between the February Revolution and the October Revolution.
https://twitter.com/emperoreagan/status/1446930307840679938
You can say "Communism is bad" without defending the absolute trashfire that was Imperial Russia.
I've made this point before, but communists have never successfully overthrown a democracy. Not once in history.
They pretty much are only able to overthrow governments as bad as they are.
They pretty much are only able to overthrow governments as bad as they are.
This is kind of one of the points Orwell made in Animal Farm.
Animal Farm wasn't better or worse than Manor Farm — it was the same thing. The same oppression just with different leaders and different slogans.
Animal Farm wasn't better or worse than Manor Farm — it was the same thing. The same oppression just with different leaders and different slogans.
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