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70% of people on food stamps in the US work full time lol
Nowadays it’s increasingly becoming work or starve (but starve anyways lol)
Okay, I wanna be SUPER clear on this cus this is a very divisive subject and I am NO tankie. So let’s start with the basics, the Soviet Union was an authoritarian dictatorship that committed several genocides. Even after Stalinism had ended, it was deeply undemocratic and corrupt, silencing political protest and keeping Eastern Europe in line with tanks (where the term “tankie” comes from due to them being used to crush the Hungarian uprising) However that being said I find the argument that the famines after the revolution was somehow caused by the Soviet Union itself an unconvincing one. Imperial Russia experienced famines for its entire existence, it was damn near considered a fact of life that at somepoint a famine would break out. Russia is a very large country with a large population but not a lot of arable farmland, it’s what made Ukraine so valuable to the Soviets, and why it’s to valuable to Putin today. You can definitely say that they was weaponised, the Holodomor being a perfect example of this, you could say they was not handled well collectivising farming, forced industrialisation etc etc. Again I want to be really clear here, there are plenty of things you can criticise the Soviet Union for, but making out that the switch from an Authoritarian kingdom to an authoritarian communist state magically meant all the crops in Russia died like it’s Lion King is reductive, what’s worse is it cheapens any other criticism you make towards it. TLDR: Soviet Union bad, but communism=famine is a bad argument.
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Nowadays it’s increasingly becoming work or starve (but starve anyways lol)
Okay, I wanna be SUPER clear on this cus this is a very divisive subject and I am NO tankie. So let’s start with the basics, the Soviet Union was an authoritarian dictatorship that committed several genocides. Even after Stalinism had ended, it was deeply undemocratic and corrupt, silencing political protest and keeping Eastern Europe in line with tanks (where the term “tankie” comes from due to them being used to crush the Hungarian uprising) However that being said I find the argument that the famines after the revolution was somehow caused by the Soviet Union itself an unconvincing one. Imperial Russia experienced famines for its entire existence, it was damn near considered a fact of life that at somepoint a famine would break out. Russia is a very large country with a large population but not a lot of arable farmland, it’s what made Ukraine so valuable to the Soviets, and why it’s to valuable to Putin today. You can definitely say that they was weaponised, the Holodomor being a perfect example of this, you could say they was not handled well collectivising farming, forced industrialisation etc etc. Again I want to be really clear here, there are plenty of things you can criticise the Soviet Union for, but making out that the switch from an Authoritarian kingdom to an authoritarian communist state magically meant all the crops in Russia died like it’s Lion King is reductive, what’s worse is it cheapens any other criticism you make towards it. TLDR: Soviet Union bad, but communism=famine is a bad argument.
Printed on demand by Printify. Ships from the US or UK depending on location.
This shirt is made from responsibly sourced materials and printed using sustainable practices. To care for your shirt, machine wash cold inside-out with like colors and tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
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