• 挂路灯人@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    Not quite accurate. Those protections were concessions given to blunt the momentum of the Soviets and to keep the homebase of Europeans happy while they looted the global south. Effectively paying a slight portion of the loot to pacify possible unrest. In effect the autocracy was there simply offshored onto the global south, now that the global south is liberating itself and the contradictions of capital are heightening the autocracy is returning home to Europe as the bourgeoisie needs to tighten the belt at home to make up for it.