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Why does Parentti criticize the USSR so much (lemmygrad.ml)

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Reading Blackshirts & Reds and am at about 40% through the book. The amount of critique he is giving to how poorly the economic situation in the USSR was, how Stalin's way of running things and how people were negligible about their jobs because there was no reason to be competitive or to do a good job is honestly a bit stark. Is this anti-communism or is this just good faith criticism?

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[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago

This sentence is key:

The only problem is that the country would have risked being incapable of withstanding the Nazi onslaught.

Parenti isn't at all saying that the USSR did the wrong thing. He's simply saying that in a world without Nazis, the USSR would have had the opportunity to be a better society than they were.