Uh aktually we’re no longer Russia we’re the Soviet Union."
oh so you’re just weirdly vindictive and petty about this, and hide it under historical dynamics without an actual class analysis beyond “they inherited the contradictions” (without naming these contradictions, in their specifics and implications with real class analysis — and ignoring the actual industrial aid and capital transfers and sending specialists and bringing their political, scientific, military, and industrial leaders to study in their schools for free, and sharing intelligence operations and countless other things; and also somehow holding up historical power imbalances as justifying some of the most unhinged foreign policy decisions the socialist world has ever seen, as if you’re more interested in the concept of exacting revenge than in maintaining national and international unity through repairing wrongs)
oh so you’re just weirdly vindictive and petty about this, and hide it under historical dynamics without an actual class analysis beyond “they inherited the contradictions” (without naming these contradictions, in their specifics and implications with real class analysis — and ignoring the actual industrial aid and capital transfers and sending specialists and bringing their political, scientific, military, and industrial leaders to study in their schools for free, and sharing intelligence operations and countless other things; and also somehow holding up historical power imbalances as justifying some of the most unhinged foreign policy decisions the socialist world has ever seen, as if you’re more interested in the concept of exacting revenge than in maintaining national and international unity through repairing wrongs)