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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Odd choice to go with a fake quote on the real date of Khrushchev's probably most famous line about "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" which is referencing the communist manifesto

The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Arguably "from within" but not anything Khrushchev or obviously Putin does, it's capitalism being a self-destructive loop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

My apologies, Yogurt, and thanks for a well-earned kick in the head.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

If only this guy warned us publicly in the 80s..... https://youtu.be/d9CJmvBXNTc

Quite worth the watch. Not too long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Pogchamp gamer fascist propaganda

The announcement trailer for Cold War is built around footage from a television interview, in 1984, between Yuri Bezmenov, the K.G.B. defector, and G. Edward Griffin, the American conspiracy theorist and longtime member of the John Birch Society. In the interview, Bezmenov claims that the Soviet Union was working to subvert the United States by brainwashing American students into becoming Marxist-Leninists. Griffin, now eighty-nine, recently hosted the fifth installment of the annual rally known as the Red Pill Expo, which, the New York Daily News reported, “gathered hundreds of unmasked conspiracy believers, along with militia leaders, Trump backers, anti-vaxxers and religious crusaders.”

Bezemov lost it in the 80s and was working for the Unification Church and John Birch Society saying whatever they wanted, a few years after the interview he killed himself trying to get drunk on antifreeze.

"Schuman had deteriorated both physically and socially … excessive drinking noted … now separated … become transient … now works with lower level fringe groups of little consequence,” said a 1980 report from the RCMP Security Service, the precursor to CSIS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Too bad humanity isn't in the habit of listening to warnings.

So annoying, because things don't need to be shit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

There has probably been a bond like cabal of oligarchs that never stopped

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes correct the only people who had enough money to scoop up entire industries in the post soviet crisis were unsurprisingly the exact people who had been successfully bleeding the soviet system dry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Putin was trained by the old KGB.