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Son Says Nikita Khrushchev Believed That The USSR Would Win The Cold War (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Activates kosygin like a boss, decides to compete on treats with usa, crushes prague and implodes all commies interrelations by shitting on stalin.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Prague was 68. You're thinking of Hungary. And well to be honest once the uprising began there wasn't much the Soviets could do. Either intervene and have western communist parties call you a tankie and abandon communism, or let it happen and risk counter-revolution across Europe. shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh right, i got the sequence wrong. But, no prague was a bad thing without lots of equivocations, hungary was more dodgy, cause there were lots of groups there. If kgb was more like cia, they would have just make sure that non-capital affiliated group prevailed.

But i mean, listening to lots of podcasts, tons of western commies decided hungary and prague were too much and decided to do their own thing. While in usa its a whatever, in italy or germany - its consequential

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

implodes all commies interrelations by shitting on stalin.

That's pretty reductive, I'm not the most scholarly guy on the split but I think not giving nuclear weapons to the chinese mattered more than the stalin question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh i haven't meant sino soviet split, more the following appearance of non-aligned movement, as they saw "nor moscow" as imperative for their survival

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that had anything to do with stalin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

But it had to with krushchev