America had breadlines in the 30s too
by Money_Grandma
America had breadlines in the 30s too
by Money_Grandma
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i don’t think the great depression can be compared to the ussr considering the great depression was for 10 years and they had breadlines all the way up until they fucking died.
>America had breadlines in the 30s too
Did America also have millions of people starving to death?
I agree with the sentiment but you choose a really poor example
Comparing American breadlines to the Holodomor is certainly a….. thing to do.
And don’t try to bs that you were not trying to do that, you could have picked any other time in Americas shitty history, but for some reason picked breadlines in the 30’s.
USSR literally collapsed because of internal contradictions lol
Naked tankie posting in current year
What braindead tankie made this
The USA and the liberal project in general have a lot of problems and we must always call them out and try to find solutions, but trying to equal it to a failed system that was unable to achieve basic material parity with any other comparable industrialized nation despite having a gigantic colonial empire is ridiculous lmao the end of the USSR was one the events that increased human well being the most in the history of mankind, and you can check that in every basic metric
Tankies gonna tank. It’s what they do. Being a tankie in 2026 is some sort of mood though.
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us” JFK
I mean, the US had breadlines because of the dustball, a major ecological disaster, the USSR had it because of forced collectivisation and a very flawed central organization/planning. Stalin literally exported food while his people starved. I get your general point but that is not a good example.
Oof, these comments are going to be fun! 🍿
(You can be a socialist without being a tankie jsyk. And unfortunately I’ve encountered folks who think Stalin was misunderstood and the Soviet Union wasn’t a dictatorship.)
Soviet restrictions on freedom of speech etc went well beyond anything the US ever had. They’re heading that way now though
So point to something the American government did to the Americcan people in the 20th century that is even remotely comparable to the Holodomor, the Great Purge or the Gulag Archipelago. I don’t recall millions of Americans starving to death during the depression, or hundreds of thousands of Americans being shot during the Red Scare.
what was happening in the 1930s in USSR then?
Mayonaise, right in the middle.
I think this is the laziest propaganda I’ve seen yet.
Tankies used to be more subtle
Yes, America’s treatment of West Germany and other Allies is exactly analogous to the Soviet treatment of East Germany, Poland, Czech is, Romania and the Baltics. Silly westerners thinking they are better then the totalitarian Stalinist regime. Did you not know that in America they lynched black people, and people starve because Capitalism?
-1991/10 ragebait. Try harder tankie. Next time come up with something that can’t be beaten by *middle-school level history class and 20 minutes of reading summaries on Wikipedia.*
In the 30s.
The USSR in the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s
Go back to r/CommunistMemes, buddy
Soviet once introduced a movie called The Grapes of Wrath nationwide, which was based on the great depression and Soviet wanted to show Russians the cruelty of capitalism. But it worked the opposite way because Russians were surprised that average joes in America owned vehicles and freedom of moving even during their lowest point. The movie backlashed so hard that Soviet had to take it off in just six weeks and never showed it again.
… should probably look up the sheer number of famines and massacres that took place under the USSR. It’s insane to compare the two and think that they were similar *at all*.
As a market socialist who believes U.S. intervention during the Cold War was unjust, the Soviet Union failed because of its shitty economic system lol
Dude, you had breadlines during an economic crisis, not an everyday phenomenon
So is this tankie gonna run away like a bitch, after posting this? How usual of them.