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Yes, bad things happened in the . Nobody denies that and nobody excuses that.

What you have to understand is that the Soviet Union was under constant sabotage. Naturally, there were some excesses, just like under bad things happen all the time.

Nathaniel Gregory

When bad things happen under , it's always an indictment of the mode of production. Yet, when bad things occur under , no one uses that same logic of thinking to condemn capitalism. Or if they do, they're brainwashed into thinking it's just how things are.

@Faithslayer202

"Yet, when bad things occur under , no one uses that same logic of thinking to condemn capitalism. "

Stick around for about a day. You will see far, FAR more people complaining about capitalism than you might imagine. A couple of them even go so far as to try to construct coherent complaints. A VERY few.