China's manufacturers are going broke

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke by para_parolu on Saturday August 17, 2024 @04:34PM (#41277744)

Obviously this is heated topic, but did it ends really bad for USSR under Stalin rule (until his death)? I mean it was bad for many citizens but other areas were actually ok-ish considering war destructions.

I’m not trying to make point about Stalin. Just trying to find if this is really a rule, but my historical knowledge is pretty limited. Intuitively I feel any overpowered political entity end up like shit. But interesting to see real data.

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Re:China's manufacturers are going broke by hkpack on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:16PM (#41278032)

Of course it was bad. But the point was about starting wars.

Stalin did start many wars, disastrous invasion of Finland, invasion of Poland, Molotov-Ribentrop pact with Germany and so on.

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Re:China's manufacturers are going broke by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 17, 2024 @06:12PM (#41278423)

You could imagine an alternate universe where Stalin gets dysentery and dies. The USSR tells Ribentrop to f'off. And then joins the allies declaring war on Germany when Hitler invades Poland.

Also I forgot to add Mussolini and his designs on Greece, Balkans, North and the Horn of Africa.

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Re:China's manufacturers are going broke by petre on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:52PM (#41278301)

If you ask the Russians the Brezhnyev rule was the best (stability, stagnation), with Stalin trailing him (won WW2, rapid industrialization). If you ask westeners, Khrushchev (space race, reforms) and Gorbachev (glasnost).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Leonid_Brezhnev

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Re:China's manufacturers are going broke by antifa on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:53PM (#41296090)

I think they just wanted to imply Xi was "like Hitler" and the rest is just filler ideology.

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