Heard him mentioned on Hexbear before but forgot the details. He was probably on the ball.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I think Khrushchev gets a bad rap. He was trying to play a tricky hand

    The soviet union needed in order to compete with America to adapt to having a more educated workforce and away from a purely industrial economy. This wasn’t feasible with the systems and institutions as set up by Stalin when the biggest priority was rightly building the nations industrial capacity, modernising the infrastructure and getting rid of the counterrevolutionary elements. He also struggled to reform these elements that had been necessary but had become a hindrance without getting ousted by hardcore Stalin loyalists so the only option he had that he could think of was to get rid of Stalins image. Unfortunately this threw the baby out with the bathwater and disilusioned a lot of people with Communism in general

    he fucked up but he had a difficult job to do and he was trying his best

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know what Hexbear’s general opinion of Furr is, but I’m currently reading through his book “Krushchev Lied” and it’s an interesting picture. I don’t think you’re wrong, the USSR was absolutely at a tricky point and needed to adapt to stay competitive, but (assuming Furr is even sort of correct, I need to read other historians (and probably learn some Russian as well)) he was pretty damn shady in undermining Stalin’s image.
      And for the record, I do think he handled the Missile Crisis pretty well, all things considered.