I do know the hardliners had that in mind, but I have to imagine their will wouldn’t be met by the population by anywhere near the same degree of fervor. That and, given their dwindling resources and lack of connection to any outside the main islands, it wouldn’t have been long before any capacity for real resistance would have dried up in the face of the peace offers
Yup. This and how all Japan would rise up against invasion, to the last man. They’re just like that out east!
But the occupation went off without a hitch afterwards don’t think about that
I worked at Amazon over a decade ago, when these were new, it was the first time I saw these things and all I could think was how ugly they were and why would anyone buy them. I’m still thinking that but stricken with the fact that they still exist against all rational thought
Lol that is not Trotsky, that’s the great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
All this.
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You play the cold war mod for Vicky 2?
Vonnegut was a POW in Dresden when the bombing happened, and recounts how he survived after he and others huddled in a slaughterhouse to survive, then coming out, witnessing the massive fires and seeing American planes strafing the survivors, including American POWs
Without doing any research my memory will have to serve, but as a poor breakaway state of a poor former SSR, they seem to have kept all the old soviet institutions and aesthetic, but with a fraction of the funding. I don’t think they’re doing well but it would be very interesting to see firsthand.
Transnistria maybe?
While it’s a wild take I think it illustrates what would have been necessary for the Soviets to consider at the beginning of the cold war and we can extrapolate some of their decisions from this.
Like they honestly feared nuclear annihilation, and had good reason to, and so had to counter that with their own nuclear capabilities. I know I’m just outlining MAD but really, so much of post-revolution decision making in communist countries was survival-first, because at all points they were threatened by often better armed and richer nations, that as soon as they acquired world ending technology thought little of wiping huge populations off the map to continue western dominance. For the USSR and China, and Iran and the DPRK today, nukes were for survival. For the west, they were tools of hegemony
To put us all in 15 minute cities
quelle horreur
My mom lived in a suburban development, my dad in a row home in the city.
I loved that row home. Before their divorce we were in a more rural area, we moved while I was still a kid and couldn’t drive, so having so many things close by was amazing. Walk to the store, restaurants, many more friends. There were busses all the time. Even when I could drive I didn’t need to, or it was a short drive anyway.
Strong agree from me.
Even my mom’s suburban home was at least close to nature and abandoned industrial buildings, but not having that at the least would have made it completely awful, and I know many of most developments don’t. Still no sidewalk to anything outside of it though
May Stalin fuck you
Please share how to say this
Sidewalks would interrupt my precious lawn!
Time for a car gulag. Garage gulag? Garlag? Gulage?
Yeah, I’m enjoying watching all this happen, thanks for this delicious post
Somehow, Stalin returned