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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So, let me clarify, you could've wished for a proper communism without state and such bullshit, but wished for an autocracy with ambitions of world domination to be undissolved? Great job here, mate!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk, I think it would be a net positive for the world. As the dissolution brought a few bad things with it, like child prostitution, alcoholism on an international scale, drug abuse, corruption on a never seen before scale, and just in general things became a tiny bit worse for an average person. If anything, we do have an autocracy with ambitions of world domination brewing (ie Russia) as a direct result of the illegal dissolution. In all honesty, would be better to wish that the liberal economics reforms were never adopted, that ideally would keep things at bay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough; although, I meant more of a communism on a world scale, with rewiring the brains of those selfish bastards that actively oppose it for their benefit, and all that jazz. So, pretty much the thing a genie's help (or something equally unbelievable) is necessary atm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Hey they have three more wishes, give them a second

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (32 children)

The Soviet Union was working towards Communism, if it wasn't dissolved then Humanity as a whole would be a lot farther along in the transition to Communism globally. The Soviet Union was not an "autocracy," nor did it have "ambitions of world domination." Such claims come from Red Scare nonsense.

I recommend you read Blackshirts and Reds.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The world certainly would be a much better place now if the Soviet Union had persisted, rather than having millions die due to the reintroduction of Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

In my case, it would be that

  1. Stalin lived for a few more years
  2. A leftist front would get elected to form the central govt in India
  3. Land and Education reform happens in all states, while ensuring that superstition is reduced and the consitutional duty of developing Scientific temper is given a bit more focus
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