Parallels Between Soviet Union and USA of Today

[PsihoKekec]

America has become its own worst enemy - UnHerd

But globalisation came with a price, with millions of jobs lost after the 2001 trade deal with China, made two months after George W. Bush had followed the Soviet example by invading Afghanistan. It was in those former industrial heartlands where people first began to notice an epidemic of drug-related deaths that now constitutes one of the greatest social disasters in history.

Four decades on from its superpower rival, the United States had now become a country in which people were dying younger, driven by overdoses and suicides. That this epidemic took so long to register may have been the solitary and often legal nature of the drug problem; unlike Aids, it did not affect too many celebrities, Prince being the exception. But it could also be who the victims were — predominantly rural white Americans, neither powerful themselves nor championed by powerful supporters.

Like the Soviet Union, the United States has developed a system in which some social classes and races are officially favoured, and some are disfavoured, reflected in post-war legal innovations like affirmative action.

Affirmative action was originally introduced as a counter-measure to segregation, either of the official or unofficial variety, but as with many things its purpose evolved as bureaucracies grew. Today, government interference in private institutions is aimed at the goal of equality — not the liberal concept of equality of opportunity, but the more ambitious equality of outcomes, or “equity”.

While there are many differences between the USSR at the time of collapse and USA of today, there also too many similarities for comfort, it's like once bureaucracies achieve certain threshold of power they settle in same general patterns of oppression and destruction.

Once again, if you want to hear the truth, go to the BBC (until the young people who run the website take over).

Biggest issue I have with this article. Honestly, I would rank BBC way under RT and Al Jazeera, at least they don't pretend not have a bias.

 

[Buba]

Biden makes me think of c.1980 Brezhnev - senile nasties with finger on "launch nukes" button.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Biggest issue I have with this article. Honestly, I would rank BBC way under RT and Al Jazeera, at least they don't pretend not have a bias.

I think he's saying the news station BBC, while implying the website is largely untrustworthy as its run by younger people.

 

[ATP]

Biden makes me think of c.1980 Brezhnev - senile nasties with finger on "launch nukes" button.

Indeed.But,just like with Brezniew have Andropow to work,we have Kamala who is running the show.

 

[Buba]

just like with Brezniew have Andropow to work,we have Kamala who is running the show.

Thank you!
I will never look at Kamala with same eyes again!

 

[ATP]

Thank you!
I will never look at Kamala with same eyes again!

Althought Andropow is certainly not happy with that comparision.But - In much warmer place when he is now,he is unhappy anyway.

 

[Scottty]

So who gets to be American Gorbachev?

 

[ATP]

So who gets to be American Gorbachev?

Since Gorbachev buried soviet trying to save it after Brezniew....some democrat in future ?
After comrade Andropow,i mean Kamala,do her best.
But...would be even small USA after that ?