Did Gorbachev actually have any sort of plan what to do with USSR? Or any idea what he was doing?
For me it seems that all he planned was "let's shake things up and hope for the best".
Note: he governed since 1984, so no 25-year rule violated.
>>523499
Yes he did, and the plan was brilliant*. His idea was investing largely in heavy industry to kickstart the economy, along with allowing for small cooperatives to supply people's basic demands state plan could not account for, and Glasnost (which is not even close to freedom of speech) to let off some steam.
Yet it was way too late, after Stagnation USSR could not be saved. However, there were new Union Treaty plans which would allow for the country to be reorganized into a "Union of Sovereign States", but then August Coup happened and everyone ran away.
*from a Marxist standpoint so it was possibly extremely fucking retarded
>>523499
One of the cornerstones of his policy was removing vodka.
And people wonder why he failed.
>>523499
1/2
Consider the Soviet Union through the analogy of a construction project. Let's call this project Hotel Communism.
Lenin is the first director of this project. He rallies the workers and convinces them that even though much hard work lays ahead, generation from now the worker's children will be able to in this luxurious hotel.
Next, Stalin comes along. Stalin is determined to complete the construction project within his lifetime. To this end, he practically enslaves the workers and kills a great number. A lot of progress is made during Stalin's reign (he transformed a deeply backwards agricultural society into a spacefaring nuclear superpower).
When Stalin dies, he is succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. During Khrushchev's management, the general consensus is that although Stalin made a great deal of progress on the construction project, the human cost of doing so was far too great. Khrushchev lightens up on the workers a bit, at the cost of significantly slowing down the pace of construction of Hotel Communism.
After Khrushchev comes a series of mediocre managers; Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. These are all old, tired men with little energy to rock the boat, so each more or less continues the policy of Khrushchev.
At last comes Gorbachev. At this point, the workers are exasperated. They have made hardly any progress in decades on the construction project, and yet they still live rather shitty lives, toiling away in bad working conditions. Gorbachev finally decides "fuck it", he puts the breaks on construction of Hotel Communism. From now on, all energies will be directed towards making the building site as comfy as possible. We may never build the hotel, but at least we won't live in utter shit.
Is having a stoic mindset the best way to get through life?
Yes, if you want to be a subservient cuck.
It's not Epicureanism so no
>>523420
How are you being subservient when you literally dont need shit to live a good life?
What would have happened if the Soviet Union had persisted into the 21st century?
>>523274
questions like this are pointless without specifying how it manages to survive in your fantasy timeline
25 year rule OP.
What can you tell me about the First Temple in Jerusalem?
>>523212
It had a room called the Holy of Holies where the Ark of the Covenant was allegedly kept and nobody except the High Priest on Yom Kippur was allowed in there.
The reason Jews aren't allowed onto the Temple Mount today is in case they accidentally tread on the ground where the Holy of Holies once was.
>>523212
It was supposed to be pretty cash senpai
>>523212
It was where the Jews laid their eggs...luckily the Romans burned it down so no Jewish monsters arose
This board needs to talk about trade and economics more often
>the United States didn't trade with communist Vietnam until the cold war was over
Was it revenge sanctions? Would they have ever lifted if the cold war was still going? Was Vietnam actually not giving up all it's pows? What could they gain from keeping them? they generally executed pows after interrogations.
>>523122
She's holding down the wrong side of her skirt.
>>523133
>she
the united states didnt trust vietnam till they realized they were no longer allied with communist world during the cold war
also vietnam was a monarch before the cold war till it turned communist during the cold war so it only makes sense that the united states a capitalistic powerhouse trades with them once theyve hit over their peak in capitalism
What do you think about this, /his/?
>Does life have a meaning?
Yes, my life has a meaning, one i bear in my mind, and i consider it unshakeable.
What now?
>>523093
1st Yes Option: No comment
1st No Option's path: How do you jump from "we don't know" to 'rationality is the highest virtue'? Why not irrationality and passion?How do you even conclude that virtues are a thing?
This just seems like rambling.
2nds no option: Why do you immediently jump to Absurdism as the only alternative? That's not even the only type of nihilism that exists. Why do you assume the only choices are a pre-defined meaning vs nihilism? How can 'life' be insensitive to human existence when human existence is a part of life? If a living thing is sensitive to at least one other living than sensitivity is a part of being alive, and thus a part of life.
No even going to read the rest of the diagram because it's garbage. The entire stem of it is based on ignoring other philosophical positions.
2/10. The 2 points are for being arranged neatly arranged
>>523192
I actually didn't make this, took this from a forum
I think the 2nd no option just refers to how nature does not necessarily correlate with human ideals, whether someone lives or dies does not necessarily matter in the long run. I do want to know what other philosophical opinions its ignoring though, since I feel like I more or less agree with the diagram, with some exceptions, like the one you mentioned with the first option
What was the pre-Islamic, Christian middle-east like?
bloody, very bloody.
>>523084
Interesting theologically. Egypt and most of the Levant split from the churches of Rome and Constantinople after Chalcedon in 451 and there were some pretty grim civil wars between the Orthodox Byzantines and non-Chalcedonian Levantines/Egyptians.
I think the Coptic Church has only very recently (last year) agreed to re-enter communion with the Orthodox church after 1500 years of schism.
The discord is a key reason why invading Islamic armies were able to expand so quickly.
Blacks fought with distinction in World War II in air, support, infantry, artillery, and armored divisions.
Fun fact: Some Nazis literally suicided out of shame on the battlefield when they saw they were being defeated in combat by black tank divisions.
Most likely false liberal shit. Sources fucking needed.
>>522987
YOU ARE AN IGNORANT MORON.
>>522990
>>522991
Thanks for posting. I've been meaning to filter you for days but I couldn't see any of your posts.
Why are china and japan so crazy and did evil fucking shits compared to Korea?
Because they had power too.
>>522706
Pretty sure Korea was under chinese rule for a long time.
Is the Majapahit Empire the greatest empire in history of man?
>>522689
Its not even the greatest empire in East Asia
>>522695
t. chink
Coming through, plebs.
What code of ethics do you live by?
What self imposed rules govern you and why?
>>522559
All you need is the golden rule. Fuck the rest.
>>522559
>What self imposed rules govern you and why?
I try not to involve myself in unnecessary threads because they waste my valuable time, energy, and perhaps would make me dumber.
>>522603
Silver rule is better to be honest family. It's more realistic and passive and I think thus more achievable.
I don't subscribe to any deontological rules or anything like that at all (Kant was a literal autist) but I also think utilitarianism is retarded.
Virtue ethics master race. Anyone requiring specific moral guidance for general everyday life probably lacks the capability to understand ethics.
Why did the Irish never fully integrate into the United Kingdom as the Welsh and Scots did?
As soon as the Irish conquest was made official by Henry VIII in the 1530s, there seems to have been a major revolt against British rule every generation up until today.
Why is it that no combination of carrot and stick could ever subdue this chafing under British rule?
>>522470
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church
>>522473
The Church opposed Irish nationalism at every stage.
They excommunicated the United Irishmen and later the Fenian Brotherhood. They also strongly condemned the 1916 rising and sided with Britain in the War of Independence.
The notion that Irish rebellion were spurred on by raving preachers from the pulpit is quite wrong. The opposite was true.
>>522470
The Irish never fell for the "British" meme
Was he a Tyrant?
>>522352
>ended the catholic oppression
>stood up to the emperor
>tried to reclaim rightful continental clay
based
>>522361
He had Thomas Morus executed so yes in my book.
>>522352
At the beginning of his reign, no. He basically let Wolsey do most of the ruling and resigned to playing sport but after his jousting accident he changed a lot. Soon Wolsey was dead and Anne was executed. Thomas Cromwell who acted as Wolsey's replacement didn't have nearly the same amount of power and Henry had his inexperienced hand in everything. Getting slowly more paranoid at the discontent growing amoung the nobility and intellectuals who liked it much better when he just played sport. Lots of people got executed as a result of this. In the end it was tyranny
What specific period in history is are these books based on?
>>522306
>these books
Go on...
>>522306
War of the roses, and england when it was split into multiple saxon kingdoms, I also get a bit of hundred years war feel from it
Are the strong really strong if they need to be protected from the weak?
They look after each other's back fåm
>>522264
>å
Scandi detected
>>522261
Yes because the strong are few but the weak are many
At the end quantity>quality
