wormyguy
Banned
Kruschev
Khruschev
Khruschev
Hruschev
Kruschev
Not one person in this thread (including myself) managed to spell his name right. Maybe we should just call him Хрущёв.Krushev
Kruschev
Khruschev
Khruschev
Hruschev
Kruschev
Not one person in this thread (including myself) managed to spell his name right. Maybe we should just call him Хрущёв.Krushev
His reforms were not all of the sort one would really desire, as a citizen of the country.
Andropov's last job was managing KGB. As the usual proverb goes, to a man with just a hammer, everything will look like a nail. Andropov wanted to combat corruption, and his recipe was to subordinate police to KGB. He wanted to fight the drunkenness by pretty much introducing Prohibition coupled with an police state. The result would be (if the reforms were to go anywhere) a more complete, more effective total surveillance of the citizens than was ever attempted before in the SU.
And turned the country from a corrupt communist dictatorship to a corrupt plutocratic obligarchy.![]()
Which is less brutal and less likely to start slinging nukes.
Less brutal than the post-Stalin U.S.S.R? Errr no, just no.
If you knew anything about Yeltsin/Putin's Russia to say nothing of the various shitty regimes in the former SSR's you wouldnt post that.
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