Posts from philosophy

This doesn't mean that justice doesn't exist. I, too, have suffered from injustice, but I believe that everything can be fixed. Treat people the way you want to be treated, and the world will change.

This doesn't mean that justice doesn't exist. I, too, have suffered from injustice, but I believe that everything can be fixed. Treat people the way you want to be treated, and the world will change.

The truth that I lost.

Never lose hope. How many times has it seemed like everything was over, but a way out was always found. And in general, everything happens for a reason. I've experienced it myself. I was kicked out of Novosibirsk State University, my girlfriend left me – but then I found my true love, re-enrolled in the same program at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, and I'm happy.

From a secret report by Allen Dulles to the US Congress (1945). - In reality, this is exactly what happened: people are drawn to pleasures, not to communism, as the Soviets propagandized. In the USA, they simply played on this very successfully, and it was easier for them. In our country, there was a real lack of available pleasures, which led to envy of the West and rejection of our own culture (it's a pity that no one in the KGB came up with the idea of doing this in America, or if they did, they couldn't pull it off). Moreover, socialism is generally a misguided branch of development...
Regarding retreating into quasi-reality - I meant that if you get too carried away with it, it becomes a pathology.

Socialism is the real future. Across Europe, there is an attempt to build it, and socialists are in power in many countries. They are simply moving towards socialism slowly, through reforms. But the USSR was surrounded by a hostile environment, and the path of reforms was unacceptable because they simply wouldn't have had time to implement them. That's why there were excesses. To deny socialism is simply not to understand its essence.

Perhaps communism wasn't such a bad idea after all? The concept itself was decent, but it was corrupted.

They didn't distort anything. There was simply no other way to build communism, given the hostile environment. In a 1931 report, Stalin said, "Either we will catch up with Europe in ten years, or they will simply crush us." Prophetic words. And so, they had to work hard for those ten years, catching up with countries that had been building their economies for centuries.

Still, maybe communism? The idea was actually good, but it was perverted.

Just my IMHO, Brezhnev put the idea on hold... that's why the era was called the "era of stagnation," and before him, everyone more or less believed in the future of communism... (I don't really like 20th-century history, especially the USSR, so I'm expressing a personal opinion that isn't really supported by facts)...:smile34:

Yes, the history of the 20th century is a complete fabrication. No other era has been so heavily embellished with fiction. Now we have a country with an unpredictable past.

The very idea of communism is very good, but it is a utopia. Democracy is just a facade behind which lies a dictatorship. And the people are just a mob.

And to deny socialism is simply not to understand its essence. - I meant that the idea of communism, which would be derived from socialism, is flawed, or maybe I just don't understand what it means... I never took much interest in it. And Brezhnev was precisely a conscious builder of communism; it's just that when he came to power, he no longer had any real influence; he was just an old and sick man.

And Brezhnev was precisely a conscious builder of communism; it's just that when he came to power, he no longer had any real influence. He was just an old and sick man.

But an interesting, unusual person! :)

I agree, if he had come to power earlier (in terms of awareness), maybe we would be living much better lives.

The main law of philosophy...
It's hard to understand a madman, especially if you are mad yourself...

What are you getting at? If you're talking about Brezhnev, I don't think he was crazy when he was in power. His inner circle did everything for him, and they did the same thing as they do now – they grabbed as much as they could. Only now, they grab strictly according to the hierarchy, with the President at the head, while back then it was chaotic and without Brezhnev himself.