Originally posted by Kev
works fine enough for china. when russia abandoned it, it devastated the fucking country it almost became a failed state. also, more people were christian during the soviet union than modern russia, so much for your "christian russia stronk" narrative.
Sure, works fine if you're Xi Jinping or a member of the PolitBuro, Standing Committee and Central Committee of the party. It's also working great if you consider genocide a good thing, or a massive surveillance state. Or are a fan of social credit scores and arbitrary enforcement of the law, and shitty construction work that puts the lives of millions at risk. Like The Three Gorges Dam. If that seems great to you. Then who am i to argue...
Also, The USSR and China never had good relations, the fact they were both communist was the only thing they had in common. Just like when Stalin sold all the grain from The Ukraine and caused millions of people to starve so did Mao Zedong sell all the grain stores to Russia in the 50's/60's leading to even more suffering, death and starvation. So much so in fact that to this day a common greeting in Chinese literally translates to "Have you eaten yet?".
And before you tell me that was in the past and China is wealthy now, that's only because of money coming in from The West, it started off with Henry Kissinger 'opening' trade with China, which directly led to US manufacturing moving there, because of the fact that the cost of labor in China is so low, and they don't have any laws, or initiatives to provide the workers with adequate pay, housing or safety regulations. It's so bad that they hang suicide nets around tall office buildings in the lower tier cities to prevent people from killing themselves by jumping from the rooftops.
The reason why the US wanted to open up trade with China is to undermine their relationship with the USSR and prevent a formal alliance. Keep in mind China was never part of Russia/USSR, but they did trade a lot. When America opened China up for global trade, the relationship collapsed. So, Russia didn't abandon China, China started trading with The West, which prompted that collapse. Not to mention mis-management of the entire society.
Unlike you i'm not pulling this shit out of my ass, this is well documented history, go look it up. Your assertion that "more people were christian during the soviet union" is A) Not backed up by any historical sources, B) Patently ridiculous because religion was outlawed in the USSR. Sure people may have been secretly Christian, but not practicing Christian. So C) even if there were more Christians in the USSR, there is no way to verify that because you'd get gulag'd if you admitted to worshiping anything other than the state and the glorious leader, so even if they had held a census, everyone would have lied. Things calmed down a bit after Nikita Kruschov became the leader of the USSR, but not by much. Only under the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika instituted by Gorbachev did the USSR give some freedom back to the people. The very freedoms they stole after the Russian Revolution.
Frankly your general lack of understanding and knowledge when it comes to history and indeed reality is embarrassing to put it mildly.
