What if I told you Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Cold War poster boy of “anti-communism”—wrote a story in 1996 that mourned the USSR’s collapse, praised Stalin’s industrial legacy, and condemned post-Soviet capitalism?

It was never translated.

Too ideologically inconvenient.

🧵 Solzhenitsyn became a Cold War icon after writing The Gulag Archipelago — fictional “literary investigation” of the Soviet prison system.

The West treated it as hard fact. Marketed it as nonfiction. Taught it as gospel.

Weaponized it as regime-change literature.

But in 1996, he published a short story called На изломах — At the Breaking Point.

No translation. No republication. No Western attention.

Why?

Because this time, he wasn’t denouncing the Soviet system.

He was mourning its destruction — and exposing what replaced it.

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Weeks into his leadership, Xi Jinping made the Party watch this documentary:

Memorial of the Soviet Collapse 20 Years Later — Russians Speak

Ep. 1: “Political Reform” and the Multiparty System — how Gorbachev's “reforms” dismantled the USSR from within.

Now AI-subtitled. 🧵 Episode 2: "Economic Reform" and Privatization
Gorbachev’s reforms were not renewal—they were liquidation.

“Accelerated development” masked a transfer of state property to a new ruling class.

“They desperately wanted to turn that wealth into legal property under their own name.”

By 1988, privatization became doctrine.

“Take ownership… that originally belonged to the state and the people… and quantify it for a privileged few.”

The result:
– $1T in assets sold for $7.2B
– Inflation at 2,509%
– Prices up 65×
– Industry gutted, poverty exploded

“The fastest and craziest privatization in human history.”

It wasn’t reform. It was class war from above.

The red flag fell over the Kremlin in 1991.

The West declared victory. China took notes.

For three decades, the CPC has dissected why the USSR collapsed—not because socialism failed, but because its guardians surrendered.

Here’s what China learned. 🧵 1 — Bread, Then Ballots: How Economic Mismanagement Triggered Collapse

China's first lesson: economic reform must consolidate socialism—not dismantle it.

Gorbachev reversed this logic, liberalizing politics before resolving stagnation.

“Gorbachev was pushing political reform ahead of economic reform; China under Deng was promoting economic reform ahead of political reform.” — Victor Gao

Perestroika unleashed market chaos without structure. Supply chains collapsed. Prices exploded.

"The privatization reform led to a serious polarization of the distribution of wealth, a lack of socialist ideals and beliefs, an extremely chaotic sense of ethics and morality, and an all-round regression of the social spirit." — Li Shenming/Chen Zhihua

The acute failure wasn’t socialism itself, but reform without sequence, without control.

Surprising Achievements of the Soviet Union 🧵

They told you the USSR was a total failure. But the numbers say otherwise.

Here’s a thread of facts that shouldn’t be possible—unless a society was doing something right.👇 1/ In 1917, around 60% of Russians were illiterate.

By the 1980s, the Soviet Union had reached 99.7% adult literacy, among the highest in the world.

Today, India’s literacy rate is about 77%.

A 1963 Soviet textbook explained 2025 America better than any liberal think tank ever could.

Finance capital. State capture. Corporate welfare. Cosmopolitan oligarchy.

Here’s what they warned us about - and how it became your daily life. 🧵 Finance capital isn't just "big money".

It's the fusion of industrial monopolies and banking empires into a single, commanding bloc.

It does not sell goods—it allocates the conditions of life.

Prices, wages, currencies, supply chains, even election outcomes are directed by boardrooms, not ballots.

The result is not free enterprise but strategic central planning—by unelected oligarchs.

The real government is composed of asset managers, bondholders, and transnational dealmakers.

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The United States consumes what others build.

China builds what others need.

In a conflict over trade, finance, and supply chains—Only one system can scale production, redirect flows, and absorb pain.

This isn’t a war China fears. It’s one it calculated. 🧵 The U.S. economy rests on financial rent and military coercion.

Its power depends on maintaining monopoly control over flows it no longer produces:
– Software it licenses
– Patents it enforces
– Currency it prints

The U.S. outsourced labor, privatized infrastructure, and handed capital the steering wheel.

China retained state control and made production the spine of its development strategy.

It now produces more manufactured goods than the U.S., Japan, and Germany combined—because it never surrendered the means to do so.

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You can’t rebuild an economy with tariffs when the factory’s gone, the workers are broke, and Wall Street owns the land.

China knows this. That’s why it’s winning.

Trump’s tariffs won’t rebuild the U.S.

It’s imperial decline wrapped in red, white, and blue.

🧵 1/6 Protectionism Without Production

Tariffs signal the end of a unipolar economic model that enriched a domestic rentier elite while hollowing out productive capacity.

After decades of outsourcing and gutting public infrastructure, the U.S. is now trying to patch up a decaying economy with trade barriers.

It’s not reindustrialization—it’s damage control.

You don’t regrow a burned down forest by fencing off the ashes.

Meanwhile, China played the long game: investing in productive forces, building industrial ecosystems, and shielding its economy from Western financial capture—ensuring that sovereignty over industry remains a matter of state strategy not market whim.

While America played empire, China played industry.

Now one prints sanctions, the other prints steel.

PUTIN New Year's address: "[This year] was a year of difficult, necessary decisions, major steps towards gaining the full sovereignty of Russia and the powerful consolidation of our society... Moral, historical rightness is on our side." PUTIN: "It was a year that put a lot in its place, clearly separated courage and heroism from betrayal and cowardice, showed that there is no higher power than love for one's family and friends, loyalty to friends and comrades, devotion to one's Fatherland."

PUTIN: "Fidel Castro all his devoted his life to the selfless struggle for the triumph of the ideas of goodness, peace and justice, for the freedom of oppressed peoples, for a decent life for ordinary people and social equality."

🧵 1/6 PUTIN: "[Fidel] is rightfully considered one of the brightest and most charismatic leaders of the turbulent 20th century, a truly legendary personality, a symbol of an entire era - an era of national liberation movements, the collapse of the colonial system..."

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RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTRY: "The trial in the Netherlands has every chance of becoming one of the most scandalous in the history of legal proceedings with its extensive list of oddities, inconsistencies and dubious arguments of the prosecution..."

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1593230247834845187

RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTRY: "Both the course and the results of the proceedings indicate that it was based on a political order to reinforce the version promoted by The Hague and its associates."

DUGIN: "China accepts the international rules and takes full advantage of them to prevail, whereas we in Russia during the 1990s betrayed our national sovereignty... Regardless of whether it's for Russia, India, Iran or the Arab countries, China is the main hope." DUGIN: "Putin attempted to reconcile the contradiction between the rise of the country and integration into globalization, but it proved impossible. This irreconcilability peaked after the SMO began... Russia is now in a war against the West, against the United States."

‼️COL. MACGREGOR RAISES ALARM: US troops sent into Ukraine under the guise of tracking donated weapons "is beginning to look a little like an advance party for this very dangerous proposition that a multinational 'coalition of the willing will eventually go into Western Ukraine." COL. MACGREGOR: "NATO has no independent command and control, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance - none of it."

Entry of US troops into Western Ukraine "is an invitation to direct war with Russia."

PUTIN: “The battlefield to which fate and history have called us upon is the battlefield of our people, for great historical Russia. The truth is with us.” PUTIN: "The Anglo-Saxons... switched to sabotage, it's unbelievable, but the fact is that by organizing explosions on the Nord Stream international gas pipelines that run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they actually began to destroy the pan-European energy infrastructure"

ORTEGA: "El gobierno que quiere recibir aplausos del imperio yanqui (EE.UU.) y de algunos gobiernos de la Unión Europea salen allí, como perritos falderos, a hablar que hay que poner en libertad a los presos políticos en Nicaragua" ORTEGA: "Allí sale de repente (Boric demandando la liberación de los presos políticos en Nicaragua) y tiene cantidad de presos del gobierno anterior, de jóvenes que protestaban en las calles buscando un cambio profundo"

Citas de XI JINPING 🧵en su discurso sobre la ideología y socialismo chino

"Defender y desarrollar el socialismo con peculiaridades chinas" XI JINPING: "En primer lugar : el socialismo con peculiaridades chinas es socialismo. No es cualquier otro tipo de 'ismo'. Los principios científicos fundamentales del socialismo no pueden ser abandonados; sólo si se abandonaran, nuestro sistema dejaría de ser socialista"

STALIN's 1924 analysis of why the October Revolution won🧵

1/7 EXTERNAL FACTORS:

1. Imperialist blocs were "in mortal struggle between themselves" (Anglo-French vs Austro-German), allowing revolutionaries a window to organize.

These blocs "had neither the time nor the means" to focus on stopping the revolution.

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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu speaks at thr First International Anti-Fascist Congress

He quoted communist Georgi Dimitrov, who called fascism "bestial chauvinism, medieval barbarism and unbridled aggression against other peoples and countries".

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1/ Russian Defense Minister Shoigu:

"Today we are witnessing another vivid manifestation of the Nazi policy, when the Russophobic idea of banning all Russian citizens from entering the European Union is being actively promoted from high tribunes in Europe."

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Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism: A Soviet Textbook by Otto Wille Kuusinen of the Soviet Politburo

Chapter 17, Section 2: "COSMOPOLITANISM, NOT PATRIOTISM, IS THE IDEOLOGY OF THE IMPERIALIST BOURGEOISIE."
🧵1/ "The fact that the proletariat defends the freedom of the nations, their independence and national traditions, is an expression of the patriotism of the working class, which is the direct opposite of both the chauvinist and cosmopolitan ideology of the bourgeoisie." 2/

Putin cancels infantry assault on the Azovstal steel plant harboring the remnants of the Azov Battalion in Mariupol:

"Our soldiers do not need to go into these catacombs and risk their lives... seal it off completely, all the exits, make sure not even a fly gets out of there!" "Once again offer them to lay the guns down. All of them will be treated according to the international law, we guarantee them life and the wounded will get medical help."

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Gonzalo Lira (@realGonzaloLira): "If ever you don't hear from me for over 12 hours, assume I've been picked up by Ukranian SBU, and assume that the people most responsible are The Daily Beast." (@thedailybeast).

Gonzalo has not been heard from in 3 days.

https://twitter.com/realGonzaloLira/status/1507644195212824582?t=KHd8UrsHvlmV6V-qmDOnAg&s=19

Liberals push statehood for Puerto Rico as an attempt to cleanse their guilt from identifying with an empire that still has classic colonies. In typical liberal paradox, they would have us cleanse the guilt of their imperialism through our complete annexation to the US state. Liberals don't see beyond formality so they falsely imagine a legal status ("Puerto Rican statehood") as an actual guarantor of equality rather than as what it is - liberal whitewashing of the existing underclass status afflicting all non-Anglo nations within the United States.