> the russian empire was already industrializing prior to ww1. when you look at the rates, the soviets didn't accelrate much. true, but without alexander iii the nobles were out of control  > russia was again already industrializimg and it was a military powerhouse unfortunately you are wrong, the imperial russian armys logistics were horrible  the average soldier was missing essential kit including boots by the end of ww1 > what? the early soviets railed against "russian chauvinism" and fucked over russians in particular in a variety of ways. they made movies about russian men raising their american girlfriend's black son, for crying out loud what happened to all the early (((soviets)))? > so it worked great until all of its leaders were suddenly foreign agents? even if we accept that cope, that still means it failed, imploded, and handed the world to neolibs on the point that stalin should have began grooming an heir, his son was a drunken fuck up however  no one beside (((lassar))) who had renounced his jewish believes had anywhere near the balls stalin had to cut so many vermin  > jumped into this discussion because you were excusing famines with "theu deserved it." the kulaks were similar to the jews catherine tried to turn into productive citizens  theyd burn their crops and destroy their tools to try and create a separatist state  the nkvd did nothing wrong slaughtering a semetic people, plus yagoda and the others got purged at the end after they became useless
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