every argument in favor of letting China conquer Taiwan is also an argument for letting Britain reconquer Ireland. it's just if the British were to threaten that we would recognize it as psychotically unacceptable.
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Yes, that's the definition. In a life-and-death struggle against the USA, of course the Soviet Union was going to use any means necessary to maintain its position against the intended erosion and dismantling that western powers pushed for. Were they supposed to just do nothing?
What about establishing a free society that wasn't instantly repudiated by all of their oppressed colonial people (let's be honest about what the USSR was here) the moment the Soviet boot was removed from their necks?
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Perhaps instead of piling tremendous resources into a vast slave-labor-execution-complex, they could have put that labor into improving the standards of living for their own people? Or the people they held in bondage?
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Why are we discarding the increases in life expectancy, literacy, living standards, calories intake, etc. that occurred under the USSR's "soviet boot"? Are we supposed to pretend these material facts never happened?
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