07-08-2020, 10:41 PM
(07-08-2020, 04:20 PM)unity100 Wrote:(07-07-2020, 11:51 AM)peregrine Wrote: I was just commenting that the Soviet system was, among other things, resoundingly corrupt (not unlike comparable Western governmental systems).
Thats also false, and it descends from Cold War Anglosphere propaganda.
What is 'corrupt'...
A state/public official, using the power s/he has been given by the people to serve them, to enrich himself or herself instead. That's the definition of corruption used in Anglosphere propaganda.
That's absurd. This is one small example.
LA Times Jan 24, 1988 Wrote:MOSCOW —
A five-year investigation has uncovered bribery and corruption that cost the Uzbekistan Soviet Republic at least $6.5 billion and involved high-ranking officials including the son-in-law of the late Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, Pravda said Saturday.
The official Communist Party newspaper said the corruption was institutionalized, and that involved officials and millionaire entrepreneurs in the Central Asian republic hired bodyguards and bought police protection.
I admire your ardor for the topic. I don't understand the context of your distortions. Zillions of citizens were held at near poverty wages and lifestyles (to the extent that defectors were imprisoned or worse), yet abundant riches were harvested in arms manufacturing, resource extraction, etc. Where do think all that money went? Brezhnev was hardly the only one on the take in Eastern Bloc.