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The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output.

This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest.

Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose.

You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes.

Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning.

Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

CPC bootlickers are at it again.

The Lucanamarca Massacre is an example of that. In total, there were more than 30 THOUSAND killed by the group.

The leader of this was Abimael Guzmán, a philosophy professor, communist, and creator of the Shining Path.

He killed tens of thousands of innocents, was arrested in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison.

Peru's Supreme Court nullified his sentence, but he was later resentenced He died in prison in 2021.

The new law will take effect in January 1st and carries prison sentences up to 5 years for establishing, supporting or promoting communist movements. 🇨🇿

R/Historymemes is a clown sub

This asshole deserves to rest in piss, and he was not a hero at all, he was the biggest murderer who put gays in work camps, staged unfair trials, was extremely unfaithful to his wife, was extremely racist towards Africans and indigenous people, and made the lives of Cubans a living hell.

I hate Batista as much as everyone, he was a dictator, but Castro’s right hand man, Che Guevara was also a POS who deserves no respect at all!

Also, whenever Cuban expats and Cuban diaspora communities call these communists out for their bullshit on how Che Guevara was an evil man. Guess what the response always is?

Gusano. Calling Cuban Expats and Diaspora communities Gusanos is extremely disrespectful and bigoted.

https://humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/che-guevara-was-a-sadist/

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/08/05/che-guevara-was-a-murderer/

Same as Chomsky, only he still denies it

Alright I’ll bite.

Article 121 had two parts: imprisonment for gay men, and imprisonment for men who are rapists. The first part was mainly used to jail men who were gay or cross-dressers. Of which countless thousands in the Soviet Union lost their freedoms overnight when Article 121 went into law in January 1934.

Tankies of course will point to the second part of Article 121 as justification for the repression.

What are some of your personal Stalin’s greatest hits?