Lukie said:
PedroSteckecilo said:
Not to mention the Nazi's planned on making the Russians glorified slaves once they beat them.
Well Hitler wanted an alliance with Russia at one point, is communism much different to slavery anyways?
Um. You people clearly don't know much about communism. Neither fashism nor communism are anywhere near slavery. Communism = literally every business is controlled by the government, people who have negative opinion about government are generally silenced, so free speech kind of sucks, and everyone is supposed to get the same stuff no matter what they do. It didn't work well in Russia because of massive corruption at higher levels, plus the whole idea that someone doing menial brute labour getting as much if not more then a scientist with 20 years of education behind his shoulders is pretty bad...In any way, I personally doubt that it could work in any large groups, ever.
And fashism, it's pretty much similar. Government controls most businesses, free speech suchs and people going against the government are silenced, etc.
So yeah, communism, even in such fucked up form as it was in USSR, was not slavery. People got considerable food and resources, even though quite scarce most of the time, and they were paid for their jobs, even though quite little.
That doesn't quite fit with my definition of slavery. There were not (all) doing brute menial work, they were not forced to work all day and night, they had holidays, they were payed even though money wasn't very useful in days of USSR, etc.
Slaves generally don't get so much.