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Post by lordroel on Feb 5, 2022 10:07:22 GMT
Sovietization of Bulgaria and Romania - episode 14
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2022 11:15:06 GMT
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Post by oscssw on Feb 6, 2022 18:12:36 GMT
Poor Vinegar Joe Stillwell. He was doomed from the start. Peanut knew the communists were the real threat and acted accordingly.
One of the key means the communists used to gain the support of the peasants was "Land redistribution".
Whenever the Communists secured an area during the civil war, Mao’s cadres (teams of supporters) went to work, organizing village “struggle meetings.” Peasants and laborers, who owned little or no land, met to force wealthy landlords to confess their bad treatment of the poor. This sometimes included torturing, beating, or even killing
landlords as “enemies of the people.”
The cadres then cancelled all debts owed to the landlords and distributed their land and other property to the poor peasants and laborers. What they received became their own private property. As more peasants and laborers acquired land, more of them had a stake in the success of the Communists.
And what did the peasants get once Mao won?
By 1955, Mao had forced the peasants to give up their privately owned plots of land to form state-owned collective farms. The peasants then worked for the government. A few years later, Mao ordered the peasants to work on even larger communes. Food production plummeted, and many Chinese starved. Millions died as a result of Mao’s policies.
I think there is a lesson there for those misguided young, brain washed fools who want to embrace socialism.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2022 18:28:43 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Feb 7, 2022 3:46:50 GMT
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Post by stevep on Feb 7, 2022 14:43:02 GMT
Poor Vinegar Joe Stillwell. He was doomed from the start. Peanut knew the communists were the real threat and acted accordingly.
One of the key means the communists used to gain the support of the peasants was "Land redistribution".
Whenever the Communists secured an area during the civil war, Mao’s cadres (teams of supporters) went to work, organizing village “struggle meetings.” Peasants and laborers, who owned little or no land, met to force wealthy landlords to confess their bad treatment of the poor. This sometimes included torturing, beating, or even killing
landlords as “enemies of the people.”
The cadres then cancelled all debts owed to the landlords and distributed their land and other property to the poor peasants and laborers. What they received became their own private property. As more peasants and laborers acquired land, more of them had a stake in the success of the Communists.
And what did the peasants get once Mao won?
By 1955, Mao had forced the peasants to give up their privately owned plots of land to form state-owned collective farms. The peasants then worked for the government. A few years later, Mao ordered the peasants to work on even larger communes. Food production plummeted, and many Chinese starved. Millions died as a result of Mao’s policies.
I think there is a lesson there for those misguided young, brain washed fools who want to embrace socialism.
I would agree with you except for the last line. The problem was communism not socialism, which in its European version is a much different character. I know right wingers in the states too often seek to represent anything other than unrestrained corporate capitalism as socialism but that's a falsehood that needs to be challenged.
Edit realised that I should clarify that. Not meaning to say oscssw, was deliberately spreading a false story but that others, especially in the US or countries often associated with it, often do make such a false comparison. |
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Post by lordroel on Feb 7, 2022 14:48:11 GMT
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Post by oscssw on Feb 7, 2022 16:19:46 GMT
No offense taken Steve. You just keep speaking your mind and we will get along just fine.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 7, 2022 16:46:16 GMT
Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's Plan to Defeat Stalin - episode 19
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Post by lordroel on Feb 8, 2022 4:38:40 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Feb 8, 2022 18:14:42 GMT
Post-WWII Iran - British and Soviet Occupation and the Revolution - episode 21
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Post by lordroel on Feb 9, 2022 3:47:53 GMT
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Post by oscssw on Feb 9, 2022 13:59:06 GMT
I am looking forward to reading that. Thanks for letting me know about it Lordroel.
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