betrayal in Soviet Union

[Red Tsar]

paperlessarchives.com/penkovsky.html

It is true.. 2,440 pages of cia files covering Soviet military intelligence colonel and double agent, Oleg Penkovsky. He is discover that Nikita Khrushchev puposefully lead CCCP down path of destruction.

[Sendo]

stop the presses everyone. During the Cold War there were traitors and double agents working in the interests of the US against (gasp!) the SU.

[RHIZOMES]

stop the presses everyone. During the Cold War there were traitors and double agents working in the interests of the US against (gasp!) the SU.

Including Khruschev. :lol:

[Red Tsar]

stop the presses everyone. During the Cold War there were traitors and double agents working in the interests of the US against (gasp!) the SU.
Read the article.. even cia spies is saying that Khrushchev is working against Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks bring industrialisation, mass literacy, urbanisation, social opportunity to Russia. They crush немцы invaders and break the back of hitler wehrmacht. In 1930s, west was stagnating while Soviet economy was expanding by leaps and bounds under Comrade Stalin's Five Year Plan.

What went wrong? How did capitalism recover from worst crisis in history, while socialism went from triumphant expansion to stagnation and then collapse? The seeds of future collapse of Soviet Union must be found not in 1980s, but in transition between Stalinist expansion and Brezhnevite stagnation in premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. The 'fatal eggs', to use Bulgakov's phrase, must have been laid then.

[Sendo]

an authoritarian system as seen in USSR and the PRC can become unstable and if a tyrant appears who happens who to be rightist (a la Deng Xiaoping) the revolution is over.