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"The ideas were good - equality, fraternity, happiness, but the practical implementation of those ideas in our country was far from what the socialists-utopists envisioned."According to the Russian president, the Bolsheviks criticized the regime that preceded them, monarchy, of repressions.
"And with what did the establishment of the Soviet authorities begin? With mass repressions," Putin said. The president also highlighted the executions of the Royal Family and their closest servants as something carried out to "cover up a crime."
Earlier in the day, Putin said he still liked communist and socialist ideas.
"I liked very much, and I still like, communist and socialist ideas."The Russian leader added that he still kept his Communist party identification document, despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
"I cannot say I was a perfect communist, but I nevertheless treated it very carefully."Soviet Union was a country that existed between 1922 and 1991. It was succeeded by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Last week, Putin said Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and his flow of thought were to blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Surely the Soviets could hardly wait to discredit the USA in any way possible especially after their demise..
Corporations are a legal fiction created to limit liability and taxation. Corporations should NOT be able to own patents, trademarks, etc.; should be heavily regulated by governments; and their officers subject to criminal prosecution for decisions that harm the environment or people. As for socialism, I strongly disagree that government should "own the principle means of production," because politicians make decisions on their popularity, rather than their merit. Instead, natural resources should be publicly owned and administered by the government; as governments can, at least, be effectively petitioned. Private individuals or corporations should be compensated ONLY for the improvements they made by using natural resources. And the money supply of a country should be determined by estimated market value of natural resources, PLUS the improvements, based upon supply and demand. This pretty much approximates the Franklin Model, used by the US colonies before the Bank of London forced the Continental on them. Private banking should be abolished; and the only private lending would come from individuals or credit unions with NO fractional reserve banking. The Franklin Model was a rousing success in both the colonies and NAZI Germany. So successful, private bankers started wars to abolish it. I say, abolish the bankers.
Soviet electronic synthesised music from 1932. Evgeny Sholpo and Nikolai Voinov working on the 'Variophone' photo-electrical synthesiser.....[Link]
was certainly a litany of poorly thought-out socialist ideas that required varying degrees of violence to implement.
That was Russia in one of its *least*-developed stages... and it was still more civilized than the US.
Homelessness was non-existent.
Mankind (along with wopersonkind), harnessed to itself, can do anything.
Ayep.
Sure can.
I believe.
ned
p.s. though I'm normally extremely bitchy and cynical (see above), I continue to support and praise (albeit modestly, and in no way effusively) Sott, if only for its open and uncensored commenting by people scattered about this planet....all the above comments, stand as an example....of....this...very good Sott. DFU (don't fuck up).