Ford supported the Nazis
There was cooperation, and now what?
I never said the Soviet union was a capitalist state, because it had no bourgeois. What it did have, however, was
Is this supposed to be a joke?
That's true. The Soviets had many problems.
During the war, the Soviets built weapons such as the T-34, JS tanks, the anti-tank rifle (PTRS), alltilery, PTRS-41, and the AK47 was about to be released, but it was never used.
The major battles were fought before Lend-Lease aid.
From 1941 to 1943, the Soviets fought 75-80% of the Wehrmacht divisions alone...
And they also outnumbered the Germans. And the Germans also died far less then the soviets did. Look at WW2 casualties, allies vs axis. Allies are majority. Then Germany vs soviets. Most are soviets. The Germans outperformed but the soviets just had endless manpower.
Germany had long been an industrialized country, but Russia had to be transformed into one by the soviets.
Russia was already industrializing before the Bolsheviks, they simply took over in the middle and then bolstered it with gulag labor, some western support, and high production quotas (that were often lied about).
Russia was extremely underdeveloped at the time, no comparison to Germany, which was already partially highly industrialized in the 19th century, and Russia only started in 1917. How do you want to compare that...
The Germans lived by plundering the conquered territories; their economy was short-lived and only strong as long as more territory was conquered and plundered.
This is a great Bolshevik myth. It actually wasn't as industrially backwards before the revolution as communist would have you believe.
I get what you're saying, but I think people often forget how poor and undeveloped Russia was before the revolution.
Today we know that Germany was heavily indebted at the time and would have collapsed economically without a war.
It almost certainly would've fixed that regardless of the revolution, in fact it probably would've been much better off had there been no civil war and no WW2 caused by communism. Russia was already modernizing, it want going to stay underdeveloped as time passed. Especially considering the tsardom was already gone when the civil war started. The soviets basically just coopted what would've happened anyways and claimed full accountability for all success.
It’s true and very well documented. The idea that the Soviets built their entire industry without the help of Western companies is absurd and rooted in propaganda. Do you really believe that they had the necessary expertise and technology to turn Russia into an industrial superpower? Of course not. Stalin knew that he needed the help of the West, as it was where the most advanced industry and technology in the world was located, and he paid very well for it.
That's what we've been hearing for a lot of time but frankly I don't believe this anymore
Not really, it's upheld by its worker drones. So if they're not productive anymore they'll have to provide concessions or reforms. NEETs and unemployed people hurt national economies, which is why you see so much mockery online and "jobless" being an insult.
Individualism is way stronger now than decades ago, there's little to no class consciousness anymore, so the chances of having workers massively demonstrating their discontent and maybe leading to some changes are rather low sadly. Most people would rather do one step ahead on their own rather than sticking as a group to make ten steps ahead together. And richfags know all of this very well.
The west deserves a white replacementIndividualism is way stronger now than decades ago, there's little to no class consciousness anymore, so the chances of having workers massively demonstrating their discontent and maybe leading to some changes are rather low sadly. Most people would rather do one step ahead on their own rather than sticking as a group to make ten steps ahead together. And richfags know all of this very well.
Yeah there are more NEETs, and people overall are having less kids, but at the same time, more and more jobs will be replaced by AI over time, and with ethnics keeping making lots of children and immigrating in first-world countries, people making less kids isn't much of an issue overall
And NEETs overall still are a minority, right now a majority of people are working and want to keep working with no project of dropping out of the rat race. Maybe it might change in the future, let's hope so.
