And after the people of Eastern Europe overthrew Stalinism(which did deserve to die, and whose death I will never mourn), nonviolently and entirely on their own, the capitalists who came in brought nothing but ugliness, corporate theft and years of mass unemployment and hardship when they came in and imposed a completely unnecessary "shock therapy". Nobody should end up losing everything they have as a reward for courageously standing up to tyranny. Poland now has a "democratic capitalist" government veering toward's nationalist Catholic/antisemitic dictatorship, Hungary does as well, adding insane hatred of the Roma to the toxic mi
and pretty much all capitalists in both countries are cheering this on) and the former DDR is now part of a Germany that is trying to impose permanent right-wing austerity on all European countries(while continuing to punish the people of Greece for debts caused mainly by the greed of Goldman-Sachs. Only the Czech Republic, of all the former Warsaw Pact states, retains any humane, egalitarian values in its governance. By you this is "progress"? Just because they've got stock exchanges and Starbucks?
The ideals of socialism are not the cause what Stalin and his lackeys did. Tyranny can emerge under any economic system or any other ideology or religion (capitalism and nationalism inevitably gave birth to Naziism-Fascism, distorted Christianity mixed with capitalism and nationalism helped fuel the Crusades, the Inquisition and much of the imperial vision that created the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide inflicted on indigenous people in the Americas and the Antipodes) and given the Slavic world's history of turning to supposed "great men", it's quite likely that someone like Stalin would have emerged and committed the crimes Stalin was able to
And Hugo Chavez and his supporters had nothing in common with the Stalinists.
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