I'm not certain that the huge expenditure on the arms race could have been avoided but it certainly didn't help the USSR economically.

No, I just think you guys are here to discredit any actual communist movement by being so goddamn cringe.

Tankies projection?

This would be a lot easier to take at face value if I didn't see so much blatant Putin apologia on lemmy. It's totally possible to condemn both the US and Russia for being warmongering, bloated empires, but it feels like in a lot of cases criticism of the US is brought up to downplay Putin's warcrimes. No war but class war.

I downvote the Chinese propaganda spam. Also the poorly written opinion pieces with unsourced claims or tabloid articles.