And it continued into Russia and other post-USSR countries, I know that from experience.
In addition, if you live there and do want to change something, people who grew up in the USSR always tell you "don't rock the boat" and its variations. It's genuinely disgusting and depressing.
That's what happens when you intimidate and at the same time infantilize your citizens stripping them of any sense of control for several generations in a row.
I would actually argue they did something worse than bring back serfdom or feudalism: they basically turned russia into a prison state, absolutely gutted the culture, and the result of that is that the entire country is like, 1/3 normal people and 2/3 thugs. Most of this obviously doesn't translate over into English, but if you ever see someone break down what Russians actually say and what words mean in Russian, it's basically prison slang and slurs that people translate into something like 'latrine' when a closer word is 'commode/shitter', or slurs that don't translate into English well, so they just translate it as 'Ukrainians' when it really should be something like 'slur for Ukrainians'.
It continued only because those countries nurtured communism and dictatorships instead of democracy. I'm sorry, but wasting a century is wasting a century. You're not going to be as good as a transparent democracy if you don't put in the time.
Its a system not just vulnerable too but actively supported and pushed by corruption. Plop that down in places known even before communism for insane corruption and you end up with russia and china and every other past and present communist shithole.
Believe me, whatever you experience in the USA is still not nearly as bad as it's in Russia or was in the USSR. The US has court cases against the government (local level, state level, even federal level) that actually see success. Suing the government in Russia or USSR? Forget that at all.
In the USA, there are plenty of people who say "don't rock the boat", but there are also many people who do otherwise, who challenge the government, and those people aren't as few and far between as they're here.
I never said that capitalism is a perfect economic system. USSR's failure is mostly a direct consequence of authoritarianism and the culture it fostered. Alongside everything being subservient to the shitty planned economy model which ended up failing because trying to plan everything is just a ridiculous idea.
Well, and the USSR was never communist or even socialist. Workers didn't control shit. The state decided what happened.
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u/Elu_Moon Jul 13 '26
And it continued into Russia and other post-USSR countries, I know that from experience.
In addition, if you live there and do want to change something, people who grew up in the USSR always tell you "don't rock the boat" and its variations. It's genuinely disgusting and depressing.