• Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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    22 days ago

    If communism is so great why did east germany and north korea need to build giant walls to prevent people from leaving?

    • Clot@lemmy.zip
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      22 days ago

      If communism is so bad and crumbles on its own, why did USA went on cold war with a country far more war torn and backward than them? why USA always tried to overthrow communist govt? why USA assasinated allende (who was a democratically elected marxist leader) and established pinochet (who was a authoritarian dictator) in chile? why did USA embargo Cuba? Why did France assassinate thomas sankara? Why did USA bomb vietnam? If communism is so bad, just let it crumble on its own? But no worlds biggest powers will try everything they can to break revolution, ofcourse they will succeed but our time will come. Dw

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      22 days ago

      No no you have it backwards. The wall was to stop the capitalists getting in.

      In Soviet Russia, wall builds you.

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      22 days ago

      Because they were satellite states of Russia. In the same vein, the capitalist satellite states (much of Africa, the Arab world, and South Asia) faired FAR worse injustices under capitalism.