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Could the USSR have done a Dengist-style reform? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I see conflicting arguments about the matter.

It's about at least every quarter-year or so that I ask some kind of question about how the USSR could have gone differently in some way.

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[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem was that the USSR on the US hitlist, while both China and Vietnam could mislead the US into believing they were sorta aligned to it.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Vietnam

They had a chance? Weren't they aligned with USSR, especially during the Sino-Soviet split? They would've treated the damn nation like MPLA Angola, at best (fund any economic, military, and media measures of sabatoging, if not destroying any post-reconstruction efforts)

And they've already done worse so, as we've seen before, post-first war of independence, up to the end of the Soviet Union (sanctions, direct intervention via troops et mass bombing, anti-govt propaganda)

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True, true, but they could later make a similar move leading to the doi moi reforms.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

But during the USSR's existence? No.