Because they're brainwashed and in a lot of respects it wasn't any better than imperial Russia. A big thing that people don't talk about and they definitely should is the fact the vast majority of soviet industry was actually built by western capitalists. Read Antony Sutton's work on this. The idea of soviets building everything themselves is a sham. https://archive.org/stream/Parts13/55520165-1-Western-Technology-and-Soviet-Economic-Development-1917-1930-1968 https://archive.org/stream/Parts13/55437228-2-Western-Technology-and-Soviet-Economic-Development-1930-1945-1971 https://archive.org/stream/Parts13/55435162-3-Western-Technology-and-Soviet-Economic-Development-1945-1965-1973 In fact, one of the most HILARIOUS things about this is Fred Koch, the father of the so hated "Koch Bros." actually build the majority of Soviet Oil refineries. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/463565987 I mean just lol, think about how funny this is. Commies actually think Stalin's period was a period of total central planning and that's how their economy developed, totally ignorant to the fact the literal Koch family built part of it for them. These brainlets literally believe soviet propaganda word for word, useful fucking idiots.

>>4069 I mean just LOL even STALIN himself admits this is true.

>>4069 Thanks for that info, I made that first screengrab you posted out of these two articles- https://www.adamsmith.org/research/back-in-the-ussr https://jalopnik.com/what-it-was-like-to-buy-and-own-a-car-in-the-ussr-1783136956 -but I've only just gone down the "USSR was shit" rabbithole recently myself so I've got a lot to learn. I will be taking great interest in these books you've provided. It seems that, like China, the USSR was far more reliant on western ingenuity and energy than their modern sycophants would dare admit openly.

>>4071 No problem man, keep reseaching. >https://jalopnik.com/what-it-was-like-to-buy-and-own-a-car-in-the-ussr-1783136956 It's funny because these car factories were originally built by capitalists and the commies took them and heavily mismanaged them.

>>4071 How is that book, btw?

>>4152 It should be required reading imho, the fact some of these people went all the up to having the POTUS's ear directly speaks volumes of the trajectory of our country in the decades that followed. Unsurprisingly many of the accused were or became "educators" after the fact if they weren't already.

>>4161 *all the way up to smh