There is no reason to daydream that the PRC is going to look anything like the USSR did. CPC has different objectives that are concerned exclusively with China, not with anyone else. Xi is not trying to be a liberator.
there is no reason to think china is looking to expand socialism for any reason
True, but have you considered that as the rest of the world, especially the 3rd world, looks on, that China's success is its own propaganda?
god i hope so, imagine living in a socialist country, socialism with european characteristics, marx and engels were european, lenin and stalin were european, socialism with european characteristics is just marxism leninism
Unfortunately the USSR had to stop at Berlin. They sacrificed 20-25 million people to fighting fascism. Lost 2/3 of their industrial capacity. The war very nearly destroyed them. America meanwhile paid german industrialists reparations. and built up West Germany through the Marshall Plan and the creation of NATO (which predates the Warsaw pact). The USSR was in no position to "go past Berlin" when America had nuclear weapons and the USSR would not for a few more years. The bomb was used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima not because it was needed to defeat Japan, but because it was a message for Stalin. Moscow would be rubble if he tried anything.
stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin
Many people, many handsome people are saying this, folks!
Maybe Xi wont.
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True, but have you considered that as the rest of the world, especially the 3rd world, looks on, that China's success is its own propaganda?
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god i hope so, imagine living in a socialist country, socialism with european characteristics, marx and engels were european, lenin and stalin were european, socialism with european characteristics is just marxism leninism
I will welcome him as a liberator
Unfortunately the USSR had to stop at Berlin. They sacrificed 20-25 million people to fighting fascism. Lost 2/3 of their industrial capacity. The war very nearly destroyed them. America meanwhile paid german industrialists reparations. and built up West Germany through the Marshall Plan and the creation of NATO (which predates the Warsaw pact). The USSR was in no position to "go past Berlin" when America had nuclear weapons and the USSR would not for a few more years. The bomb was used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima not because it was needed to defeat Japan, but because it was a message for Stalin. Moscow would be rubble if he tried anything.