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[moltar]

Didn’t stop Soviet Union from going to space.

[jeffbee → moltar]

Are you saying that space-age USSR was a true despotism, or are you equating "despotism of the proletariat" with actual despotism?

[oofabz → jeffbee]

The USSR was not a "despotism of the proletariat". Soviet propaganda portrayed their government as the will of the people, but in fact it was an autocracy. The actual despots during the space race were Krushchev and Brezhnev.

[jeffbee → oofabz]

That's why I put it in quotes. I don't see many parallels between Erdogan and Khrushchev, though.