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"Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918, pushed into delinquency not for lack of money but because of punishing Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine."
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1/ "Russia missed payments on two foreign-currency #bonds as of late Sunday, according to holders of the bonds. The day marks the expiration of a 30-day grace period since the country was due to pay the equivalent of $100 million in dollars and euros to #bondholders."
2/ "Russia last failed to pay its foreign borrowing during the #BolshevikRevolution when #VladimirLenin, the newly installed communist leader, repudiated the debt of the Russian Empire."
#Thread: The Bloody History of #Communism - Chapter 1: #USSR
Communism is a political system in which the state owns the economy & aims to treat everyone equally.
But the last 100 years have proved it to be a nightmare which brought only bloodshed, torture & fear.
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Communism is a political system in which the state owns the economy & aims to treat everyone equally.
But the last 100 years have proved it to be a nightmare which brought only bloodshed, torture & fear.
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From Marx to Lenin, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot, the materialist philosophy of #Communism transformed these humans into theorists of violence and masters of cruelty.
With the emergence of the USSR as the world's first communist state...
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With the emergence of the USSR as the world's first communist state...
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...,the slow poison of communism’s association with the #Soviet economic model and #Marxism–#Leninism started to spread throughout the world.
The philosophical aspects of #Communism have always been used to defend it.
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The philosophical aspects of #Communism have always been used to defend it.
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ICYMI: A look at the legacy of #VladimirLenin for his recent 150th anniversary, and why Lenin was not (as some modern-day socialists still think) "the good communist."
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Also, I strongly recommend the Robert Service biography of Lenin, which I'm reading now (and wish I'd had time to read before writing this piece -- some devastating stuff there). A few tidbits:
(1) Lenin himself admitted on occasion that he knew very little of the Russian people or Russian life beyond his hometown, Kazan (where he went to the university) and St. Petersburg. He showed no interest in personal interaction with actual workers or peasants.
