Depends mostly on who you are. Capitalists and celebrities are more restricted and censored, but for the working classes that doesn’t apply nearly as much. People in China do genuinely support their government, and this is proven by consistent polling by western orgs showing over 90% support.

Kiev is run by far-right neo-Nazis that uphold Stepan Bandera. The Russian Federation isn’t socialist by any means, but it isn’t run by literal neo-Nazis and it isn’t ethnically cleansing anyone.

Wow, that’s certainly a reaction.

That would track.

They are taking historically Russian areas like Donetsk and Luhansk. The west is doing what it wants because it’s using Ukraine as a proxy war to damage Russia, and is carving Ukraine out for resources. Yanukovych escaping the far-right Banderites that the west supported doesn’t mean he was a puppet either. You’re deeply confused here.

Yanukovych was not a puppet. The IMF loan came with stipulations requiring austerity, the Russian loan did not. Secondly, Russia is intervening directly in the Donbass region. It isn’t dubious at all that Crimea and the Donbass are heavily Russian, they were added to Ukraine only a century ago.

Marxists tend to critically support Russia over Ukraine here. Russia doesn’t want to “take over Ukraine,” it wants the 4 oblasts and Ukraine to be demillitarized. Donetsk and Luhansk both have been at war with Kiev since 2014 and voted to join the Russian Federation, and the far-right Banderites that siezed power in the 2014 Euromaidan coup have been heavily millitarizing and oppressing ethnic Russians. Ukraine serves a similar geopolitical purpose for the US Empire as Israel, it’s a heavily millitarized anti-communist country surroundrd by geopolitical adversaries.

Thanks! It’s important to know that Mao was basically correct here, for the most part, but the split itself was very messy with the PRC often having terrible foreign policy, such as fighting Vietnam and supporting Cambodia

Sure, I don’t see a problem with that.

Here’s what Mao had to say about the soviet reforms under Khrushchev.

What specifically? The theoretical basis, the actual historical manifestation of the split, etc?

IP itself needs to be abolished, so that part isn’t as important. Further, cars did put people out of jobs that used to draw horse carriages and maintain them. The original commenter is correct with their analysis.

This is an excellent overview of modern Korean dynamics by tracing Korean history. In addition to destroying 80% of buildings in the north, allegedly using germ warfare, sabotaging crop yields, and more, the US Army also slaughtered Koreans in the south, such as the No Gun Ri massacre.

The Budapest Memorandum was explicitly stated to not be legally binding. It wasn’t guarantees, but assurances, and the US broke these assurances first:

“Although the Memorandum is not legally binding, we take these political commitments seriously and do not believe any U.S. sanctions, whether imposed because of human rights or non-proliferation concerns, are inconsistent with our commitments to Belarus under the Memorandum or undermine them. Rather, sanctions are aimed at securing the human rights of Belarusians and combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other illicit activities, not at gaining any advantage for the United States”.

This was the reasoning given for sanctioning Belarus in 2013. The west backing the far-right Banderite coup in 2014 was an even greater violation of Ukrainian sovereignty. Ukraine also did not give up “its” nukes, but returned the soviet nukes Moscow had stationed there prior to the dissolution of the USSR that were a part of the multi-national nature of the soviet union.

The Budapest Memorandum was neither binding nor respected by the west to begin with.

You’re using queerness as a hammer to insult homophobes, which just throws gay people under the bus. Your smug condescension towards me being pan and telling you you’re being homophobic is yet another example of your very traditional, very unearned Euronationalist chauvanism. You’re like a colonial era race scientist, I wouldn’t be surprised if you pulled out calipers next.

Which treaty are you specifically referring to, here? Ukraine had been a hotbed of far-right Banderite influence before they committed the Maidan massacre and couped the state in 2014, and that wasn’t because of Russian influence.

In lots of ways the Russian Federation is behind the USSR, no doubt. Capitalism doesn’t work. That being said, it’s far better than being on the plundered side of imperialism, and that’s why UR has the support it still does. The CPRF rising is a consequence of rising support for socialism.

Socialist states don’t oppress the working classes but the capitalists, fascists, landlords, and imperialists. That’s who the tanks and rifles are for. It’s capitalist states that wield them against the working classes, like the US Empire and its European vassals.

Ukraine broke the treaties, and the Banderites couped the state and started ethnically cleansing Russians. It’s ethnic cleansing, full stop.

It’s simple, nationalists want development for greater profits while imperialists want underdevelopment to retain their superprofits.