jackhutton 🇺🇸

1. “When one considers the broader history of World War II and its outcome, it becomes evident that Stalinism was in fact one of the most successful political systems ever devised—if we define “success” purely in terms of order and power while disregarding all considerations of ethics and human well-being.

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Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari

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Jun 4 at 3:13pmWeb
Show threadjackhutton 🇺🇸Jun 4
2. "Despite—or perhaps because of—its utter lack of compassion and its callous attitude to truth, Stalinism was singularly efficient at maintaining order on a gigantic scale. The relentless barrage of fake news and conspiracy theories helped to keep hundreds of millions of people in line.
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Show threadjackhutton 🇺🇸Jun 4
3. "In the 1940s and early 1950s, many people throughout the world believed Stalinism was the wave of the future.
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Anyone who abhors the moral costs of systems like Stalinism cannot rely on their supposed inefficiency to derail them.”
Show threadRobin BartonJun 4
@jackhutton Don't forget the use of terror as government policy
Show threadRobin BartonJun 4
@jackhutton True, but this disregards the enormous amounts of materials sent to USSR to withstand the German onslaught. Further, the feared 88 gun was mostly kept in the West by the Germans to fight British, Canadian and later American bombers. Germany also did much to defeat itself in the East throughs it terrible treatment of eastern europeans who hated Stalinism but Hitler was worse
Show threadjackhutton 🇺🇸Jun 5
@Robo105 Appreciate your insight.. yes..