Plus, you know... funding a fucking civil war which threw the original ecnomic plans of the Bolshevik party into disarry, meaning they were forced to adopt War Communism, which set a precident for the, to say the least, harsh treatment of the lumpenproletariat and the creation of the Red Terror.
Does anyone know how much War Communism was a reaction to the attacks on the Bolshevik's by the allies-funded Whites, and the general air of instability that was, if nothing else, fueled by the supplying of money, troops and armaments to the anti-Bolshevik groups, or how much of it was likely to come into force over the years of consolidation even without intervention?
I'm so fucking off topic now, but I've been wondering it ever since I used the foreign intervention as a reason for why you can't point to the Soviet Union and go "Communism never works! Let's liberalalize their world economies!", because as an experiment, it is tainted and unfair. Am I right on that point? I'm probablly not, and I probablly don't now all the facts, but it fits with what I'm already aware of, at any rate... |
