China has massively boosted the living conditions of workers since the 1980s-1990s. The accusations of sweatshops 40 years ago made sense, but in 2025 they’re absurd, especially seeing the vast improvement in life quality in China compared to other countries which 100 years ago were in an identical condition, such as India or Bangladesh.
The only events called “genocide” in this post are native Americans and gazans. The rest are similarly abhorrent massacres which aren’t categorized as genocides but serve to show the complete lack of morals on the US establishment.
Maybe learn to read a post before complaining about the poster.
Hope for the future = nerds exist?
Remove the switches put a microcontroller like esp32
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The likelihood of the commenter above being 55+ (in order to have worked a significant amount of time in the USSR) is very small given how we’re in Lemmy. Based on their comments (belonging to post-USSR republic) they’re likely a young Baltic user who grew up mostly in capitalist Europe post-1990, and whose information comes from biased discourse modified by 35 years of anticommunist propaganda, which is extremely prevalent in Baltic countries, together with anti-Russian racism
@[email protected] did I get it right?
Putin bot by appraising the system he helped dismantle? Didn’t you hear, the USSR is long gone
The USSR is the only country that meaningfully helped fight fascism in my homeland of Spain. Well, at least I should be glad you’re not calling me a Putin bot, that’s already better than 90% of .world
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Source: Trust me, bro!
The fact that you haven’t informed yourself on the topic doesn’t mean the information isn’t there. You’re lying about my information coming from self-reported data, the information I’m giving primarily comes from Albert Szymanski’s “Human Rights in the Soviet Union”, a book compiling data about the USSR primarily obtained from western academia. You can keep yourself uneducated though.
never came close to proletariat rule, elimination of the system of capital, nor giving the means of production to the proletariat
You’re repeating the same thing 3 times to make it sound more impressive. I’ve already provided numerical evidence for the lowest rates in inequality and highest welfare state in the region for a continued 70 years can only be that “the dictators on top happened to be benevolent”. This is not material analysis and doesn’t hold up, otherwise you’d expect similar outcomes in other dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia or Iran, but you don’t see that.
You know where else accomplished extreme improvements to the working class has happened without a bullshit Marxist-Leninist revolution? Scandinavian countries
Wow, little nations with ten million people each which live off of the exploitation of the global south just like the rest of Europe. Such a wonderful example.
HOWEVER, the working people did not see this order upset. They saw it swapped with another order of ruling capitalists
I’ve already provided NUMERICAL EVIDENCE that this isn’t the case. Inequality rates were the lowest in history, and when the system was dismantled, inequality rose massively. You keep repeating that lie after I’ve literally PROVEN YOU WRONG.
Did it also employ mass slavery
No. High imprisonment rates on the eve of and during the biggest war the world has ever seen don’t amount to mass slavery. Prison labor at no time represented more than 3% of total labor in the USSR, this peak being during the harshest of WW2, and already in the 1950s it was reduced to something anecdotal. You can find good NUMERICAL EVIDENCE of this in Alec Nove’s “An Economic History of the USSR” and in Robert C. Allen’s “Farm to Factory”, both very interesting and dense books on the socialist economy of the USSR throughout its existence. Again, PROVEN WRONG BY EMPIRICAL DATA. You claim yourself a leftist and you literally are only parroting anticommunist false propaganda.
"During Joseph Stalin’s crash-industrialisation drive, workers lost their right to participate in the functioning of the enterprise, and their working conditions deteriorated.[9] In 1940, for example, a decree was promulgated and became law stating that a worker could be arrested if he had three accumulated absences, late arrivals or changed jobs without the official authorisation.[9] Shock work, which meant that workers had to work past regular hours, was introduced alongside central planning.[9] During World War II the pressure on workers increased and it was expected of them to take on Herculean efforts in their work.[
Oh wow, you’re telling me that in the largest war in human history, workers had to do herculean efforts to defeat the Nazis? Nah, they should have kept to their 8h a day while being genocided. You’re fucking ridiculous.
And let’s not forget the wonderful gems of “the state rapidly industrializing” at the expense of the working class in that period of time
Again, dumbass take based on vibes and not numerical evidence. Before Stalin, life expectancy in the USSR was less than 30 years of age. By the time he died it was ALMOST 60 years of age. Claiming that the peasant majority and the working class didnt benefit from industrialization is the most uneducated take I’ve seen. People literally went from plowing the land with their hands to using tractors, you fucking class traitor.
Also, let’s show your coherency. First you claim:
They didn’t “predict” shit. Anyone with a working prefrontal cortex would have foreseen the capitalist class powers of the world would scramble to crush any upset to their order
Sometime later you claim:
And we all know the super necessary policies put forth during this industrialization which I’m sure the proletariat absolutely needed
Are you fucking serious? The industrial output of the USSR grew 15% YEARLY between 1929 and 1941, year by which 30% of GDP was dedicated to military defense against Nazism. IF THERE HAD BEEN NO RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION, THE ENTIRETY OF UKRAINE, BELARUS, POLAND, CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MAJORITY OF RUSSIA WOULD HAVE BEEN GENOCIDED BY NAZIS. You literally said it was obvious. Can you be more dishonest?
the ruling class lived in luxary
I LITERALLY PROVIDED NUMERICAL EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS FALSE. YOU ARE SIMPLY FUCKING LYING, YOU PIECE OF SHIT. LEARN TO INTERPRET A GRAPH
There are countless different ways the Soviet Union could have rapidly industrialized
Again fucking uneducated take. THERE HAD BEEN NO COUNTRY TO HAVE A RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION UNTIL THE BOLSHEVIKS DID IT. LITERALLY NOWHERE ON THE FUCKING PLANET. Give me a fucking historical example prior to the USSR of rapid industrialization. You’re being an ahistorical ass.
The Soviet Union didn’t begin to defeat the Nazis until after millions of excess deaths had occurred.
Are you telling me that the country that didn’t begin to industrialize until 1929 AND ONLY DID SO BECAUSE OF BOLSHEVISM should have just magically defeated the Nazi blitzkrieg which RAN OVER THE WORLD POWER OF FRANCE IN A MATTER OF WEEKS?! You’re literally fucking delusional.
The USSR also relied heavily on outside aid from the USA and UK due to the lack of resources and military hardware when they needed it the most
“Heavily” does a lot of work there, buddy. The USSR received less than 2000 tanks from the USA, for comparison they manufactured 20.000 T-34 tanks. However, I do appreciate the USA’s role in aid to the USSR. I don’t see how that’s an argument against the Soviets, somehow accepting military aid against Nazis is bad?
Oh yeah, forgot about that. How did Stalin allying with Hitler and invading Poland
Literal fucking fascist historical revisionism. I’ll reply to this in a following comment because it’s too big a lie to dismantle in one comment.
Why wouldn’t you enter a Chinese car?