It was literally the fastest growing economic system of all time.
Yeah... I think Marxism-Leninism is the only ideology that dictates that you do colonialism against yourself.
first interplanetary civilization.
Lol! Been overdoing the sci-fi a bit, tankie?
the bravest and most committed communists
Just to clarify... you are not talking about the ones murdered on Stalin's orders, right?
against the wishes of 70% of the population
Stop fooling yourself, tankie - the fact that a large majority of the Soviet population saw no need to dismember the Union doesn't mean they also wanted your faux-socialism.
In short, the people of the USSR were revolutionaries and heroes
Oh, really? So where did those liberals come from, then?
because if you did you would want to win
You mean... unlike you?
Are we talking about the peasants who democratically rejected your bolshevik clergy over and over again through the soviets back in 1919? Those peasants?
Oh, look... a reactionary cosplaying as a leftst is calling others "imperialist."
Yawn, tankie.
LOOOL! Tell it to the Finns, the Ukrainians and the Poles, tankie. I can almost hear their laughter all the way from over here.
And the US used it's military power to end Imperial Japan - I guess that makes the US "anit-colonial" now, too?
And? Are you perhaps suffering from some kind of insecurity, tankie?
Which one, tankie? This one?