I know historical hindsight is 20/20, but how did no one bully this guy into giving up his moronic “de-stalinisation” policy? Like the SU was built by Stalin and now suddenly hes satan incarnate? No wonder SU citizens lost faith in the party over time, how can you trust a bunch weather vanes?
Also don’t forget many Whites who fled the USSR were allowed back in after the developmental trajectory of the USSR started to take off. “We all thought communism would destroy the country!”
Which then formed a reactionary class within the USSR that brought liberalism back into the socialist state.
but but but muh free market
the soviet union was too nice to the intelligensia, and at the same time too restrictive. They should allow critique but along socialist lines, but censor nationalism and reactionary tendencies.
Stalin was too fuckin nice to the kulaks and religious class