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by Spooky23 3139 days ago
The Soviets were like a big corporation. People do what the big guy says. If he’s right, he’s a genius. If he’s wrong, you’re fired.
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This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the proletariat. "All power to the soviets" faded rather quickly even under Lenin.