Dear comrades,

As we all know there are two soviet eras pre and post death of Stalin. We all know Khrushchev basically did a coupe detat, by killing all Stalinists and also by starting the anti Stalin propaganda. We know he was the cause of the Soviet Sino split.

But what exactly caused the split? What policies did he push that were reformist or capitalist in nature ? How exactly did he fuck up? I know the results, but I lack in knowledge of the causes.

          • LeniX@lemmygrad.ml
            161·
            3 months ago

            Imagine saying something akin to “let’s hear Gorbachev’s side of the story - we need the complete history” in 1993. There was an interview - it was bogus through and through. You won’t get the complete history that way.

                • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                  36·
                  3 months ago

                  I’m not talking about that dumb interview, I mean memoirs, personal correspondence, people that were close to him, etc.

                  My friend tells me that there are also a lot of speeches of his with ideas that weren’t even fully his own.

                  Sounds like an area of investigation!

                  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                    131·
                    3 months ago

                    I mean…

                    What you are suggesting is that we time travel and to get information that we don’t have right now.

                    For obvious reasons we cannot time travel and do that. Obviously it would be nice to know how they rationalised their disastrous viewpoints. But we can’t do that. Since they are dead and we cannot time travel.

                    So what are you getting at? Am I understanding you point correctly or what am I missing?