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As of writing my comment you had 3 thinga in your posting history. Two from 5 years ago and one from today. Don't you think it's exaggerative to call it stalking to simply make note of that?
It means, most likely, that you registered many accounts ages ago and are using it as an alt. This does actually cast your comment in a particular light.
I believe your point, your thesis, which you led with, is, "fuck China". And for, as I already noted, not doing enough. Your rehashing here is pointless. If you want to die on the hill of it doing, "fuck all" then that is certainly a choice.
The USSR did many great things. It also collapsed and took scores of socialist countries with it. It was also Zionist and integral to the creation of this settler-colonial genocidal project. As scientific socialists we must acknowledge not just what factors favor revolution and that we can impact, but what factors destabilize a state after the early stages. Much of the collapse of the USSR was due to failed internal struggles and organization, with Kruschev's nonsense as a canary in the coal mine.
I also would never accept the claim that the USSR had a fraction of China's economic power, it was massively productive and for more useful things. Much of China's productivity is for garbage products (not low-quality, just ridiculous products) for export to the US et al. But China is certainly powerful.
Did you miss the part where I mentioned billions of averted deaths? Do you see zero benefit to the continued existence of a socialist project governing a state eith 1.4 billion people? And China does have a very conservative internationalism that nevertheless benefits the global south.
Objectively wrong.