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>>3389577
99% of their population or something were serfs for centuries, its ingrained in their culture to be cattle

I don't believe that Russians are inherently collectivist or authoritarian in nature because I believe any society can be collectivist and authoritarian if under the right circumstances. Also I don't believe that Russia as a state is unique in the sense of totalitarianism because you don't need the Russian state as something to give an example of totalitarianism because there are plenty of autocratic regimes that don't follow the Russian tradition and who gets to decide if a totalitarian regime follows the Russian tradition?
I think that's bullshit because states can be oppressive regardless if its Russian or not.

Look at Maoist China, Mao despised Stalin and the later Soviet Union for its "revisionist" policies ironically towards Stalinism but the point is shouldn't we instead blame Marx and Engels for this ideology of communism? It doesn't take the Russian state in order to make communism oppressive and totalitarian in nature.

>>3389591
So was much of Western Europe and in some cases they developed a totalitarian culture and a mentality that didn't need Russia to help them with.

>>3389179
WE WUZ SPAIN N SHIEEAT

>>3389179
No. Not really.

No such thing as "Anglo-Normans"
There are the Anglos And there are the Normans, their masters who cuked them

>>3388931
I don't care what you identify as, all I know is you're an incredulous invader.
You're not the real British, we are!

>>3388935
I'm German, but my great grandfather was from Normandy
We cucked your country hard

>>3388687
Trump is a reality show TV star.

>>3388698
Except the reality that show was about is his successful multi-billion dollar business.

He'd been in politics for decades at that point.

Also, Ford was a male model in his youth, it doesn't mean you can't do other things later.

>>3388675
20th century intellectuals thinking they're smarter and more clever than they actually were

>>3388675
uncontrolled teenage angst

>>3388675
Capitalism and Communism

>>3388589
Interesting. Always with such stuff the question is whether it's authentic.
As for Stalin, from what I've read it's pretty clear that he was no robot. He liked to go on trips out to the country and get drunk and tell old stories and dirty jokes and so on. He certainly had a human side. But at the same time, he was a ruthless paranoid totalitarian dictator.

>>3388589
bump

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>“Let him dream. A good dream helps with work. I’ve got no dreams anymore. Not even about retirement.”
like this if you cry every time

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You literally CANNOT make this shit up

> make an embroidery of a great battle, hard won
> somehow this is a bad thing
Obsessed.

>>3388330
Himmler objectively did betray them but nobody ever brings that up. Why?

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>>3388336

He did it at the end of the war to save his own skin whereas Staffenberg and the others did it in July 1944, when Germany still held onto portions of the Soviet Union and most of continental Europe and did so not necessarily to save themselves (although that was certainly a factor), but to negotiate an end to the war and avoid the needless sacrifice of millions of German lives for a lost cause.

>>3388475
Let's say that they were able to kill Hitler. What would Europe look like postwar?

>>3384782
Colonial exploitation is only one of the various issues responsible for the state of modern africa

>>3384782
As this anon stated here>>3384795
As well as the unique history of Africa as a whole from the Pied Noir settlement of Algeria to the pre-colonial yet imperialistic and economic conditions of pre-19th century Africa as well.

This of course isn't even talking about the Cold War era proxy wars and the western nations propping dictatorship for cheaper resource extraction.

Ultimately, colonialism was only one part of a chain of social and economic development that lasted for thousands of years.

Africa came out behind primarily because it came in behind.

Also, no smallpox to kill everybody as in the Americas.

When the authoritarian societies declared war on everyone else, ruined everything, and then lost.

When they exercised arbitrary power in ways that pissed lots of people off.

In Ancient times, anon.

I know it's hard to be a teenager and seeing things for the first time, but the world is quite older than you, champ.

>>3387942
Genetics and climate

>>3387949
But what genetics? What seperates the southern italians from the nothern ones?

>>3387942
It's hotter down there.

Maybe.

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SO WEIT DIE DEUTSCHE ZUNGE KLINGT

>>3387785
Clearly the German fatherland is any place where people speak German. The only logical course of action is annexing them by force.

the idea of a utopia is impossible in the present human condition. communism and fascism would work if we weren't human, but those that seek power are typically those that are corrupt or intend to abuse it. humans are fickle meat bags who constantly think "What if it were like this though????????" and this gives rise to idealism. nothing will ever be perfect unless we can change our consciousness.

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>>3387651
I doubt it, since population growth under communist regimes was usually higher than their capitalist counter-parts.

In my understanding there's nothing wrong with communism societal structure or ignorance of human nature. The problem with communism is it's inherent inefficiency. To calculate prices for an economy you literally need to account for thousands of variables. Not only that the inherent inefficiency of a system that requires an organization to produce centralize than redistribute goods for and services at the price and amount to be deemed the most beneficial, instead of producing to maximize profit is to complicated. By the time you determine the right amount to be produced, market conditions have already changed and you have to do it all over again. The only way I can believe communism can work in this day and age is through the use of supercomputers to model the economy and the way it'll change through time

>of course there is a two thousand year right of return

>of course there is no fifty year right of return

Seriously though Palestinians are a diaspora culture now.

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>>3387436
>found a nation

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>I can grab your clay because muh ancestors lived here 2 000 years ago
Really makes me think

>>3387057
Stalin really unironically liked FDR and Churchill, it's very weird but he was a diffrent guy with them than with his politburo

>>3387248
probably because he saw them somewhat as equals in terms of being "strongmen" rulers, but we know how that turned out after FDR died. Stalin thought Truman was a bitch (and he was a bitch)

>>3387248
>>3387277
t. People who know nothing of history

Churchill, FDR, and Truman saw Stalin as a bigger enemy than Hitler. They just used Stalin to get rid of Hitler so he'd be gone.

It's like a bear using a deer as bait, to get a Jaguar to not attack it.