Both he and Brezhnev get way too much hate from people who don’t understand how much anti imperialist, anti colonialist, and socialist movements around the world depnded on the USSR support. China, Cuba Algeria, and so on. Not to mention how many people from developing countries got free education in the USSR during that period that they could bring back to their homelands. All of that requires considerable resources from a country that itself was developing and suffering chronic shortages and scarcity.
I’m curious now what you mean because I’ve always heard Khrushchev in terms of setting the stage for the USSR’s downfall. Like wasn’t he the one who threw Stalin’s legacy under the bus, thereby eroding a large part of confidence in the USSR’s history in the process?
He did shit on Stalin’s legacy but I don’t think that set the stage for the USSR downfall. I think if Andropov had another decade in him USSR might’ve survived.
No question both his and Brezhnev’s govts had failed economic policies and in general weren’t great domestically but we shouldn’t discard what those governments did on the international stage.
Both he and Brezhnev get way too much hate from people who don’t understand how much anti imperialist, anti colonialist, and socialist movements around the world depnded on the USSR support. China, Cuba Algeria, and so on. Not to mention how many people from developing countries got free education in the USSR during that period that they could bring back to their homelands. All of that requires considerable resources from a country that itself was developing and suffering chronic shortages and scarcity.
I’m curious now what you mean because I’ve always heard Khrushchev in terms of setting the stage for the USSR’s downfall. Like wasn’t he the one who threw Stalin’s legacy under the bus, thereby eroding a large part of confidence in the USSR’s history in the process?
He did shit on Stalin’s legacy but I don’t think that set the stage for the USSR downfall. I think if Andropov had another decade in him USSR might’ve survived.
No question both his and Brezhnev’s govts had failed economic policies and in general weren’t great domestically but we shouldn’t discard what those governments did on the international stage.
I’d be curious to know more about the international legacy there, if people have material on it.