I've been a clearance worker, I've done renovations, I've been a cleaner, I've lugged boxes of liquor for the mob, I've done zero hour contracts, I've been on the dole, I've stolen food just to eat.
When I was a kid I would haul soil, chop wood, paint the house and god knows what else.
Just because I'm able to string a sentence together without belting out "Oioi" or "Man United!" doesn't mean I'm not a worker.
As for your allegations about Stalin, it's pure nonsense, I've disputed it before so here's the copy-paste:
"The Soviet Union starved millions of people to death in the Ukraine in the 1930s. The people were not allowed to grow their own food, and what was produced on Kolkhoz collective farms was taken for Moscow and other centers of Soviet authority."
Perhaps this is indeed what happened. However, there might be some other avenues to explore.
First one being how the US issued a gold blockade on the Soviet Union in 1925, forcing them to pay for all their imports with grain. Seems like a somewhat arbitrary thing to do unless you were intentionally looking to cause a famine within a country you regard as a foreign enemy.
Source: Economist Nikolai Starikov, University of St. Petersburg
Second one might be the cycles of drought that caused numerous famines dating all the way back to the 1800s.
Source: Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 by Mark Tauger, Department of History, West Virginia University
"The USSR took back territory taken by the Germans in the Great Patriotic War. However, what followed was a great hollowing out of valuable items and technology from the conquered nations. Any industry and resources were taken back the the USSR to enrich the Soviets. The "liberated" people found they had new masters."
Yes, this was called reparations. It may surprise you to know, but the Nazis carried out a genocide in Russia that took over 30 million lives. I have written an extensive article about it called "Voices from Stalingrad" where you will find ample sources.
"At the end of the war, Stalin had 10 tank divisions sitting in Iran waiting for the signal to invade southern Europe. His plans were derailed by the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan. Stalin decided to wait for another day to invade."
I live in Southern Europe, and being familiar with the local geography I sure am impressed at these amphibious tanks that Stalin invented.
"The USSR had by far the strongest conventional military force in Europe at the end of the war. They could have run over the rest of the continent, but the US atomic bomb threat prevented that from happening."
Except it didn't? They negotiated the territories in the Malta conference. Moreover, the USSR at this point had been completely destroyed by the fascists thanks to how someone abetted them during the Munich agreement. Again: Check my article, lots of sources. A war, whether using Stalin's flying tanks in Iran, or whatever else, would've been completely unsustainable. You're living in a fantasy world.
"Living as a slave in a Soviet dictatorship is no picnic as millions of aging people can tell you still. The apologists for the USSR still try to fool young people today using the same wonderful rhetoric and images of Soviet Realism to encourage people to march forward together for Peace and the bright future that awaits."
Majority of people in Russia have, at every possible moment, expressed a support for the restoration of the USSR. And the communist party may win this coming election.
Source: Polling results favoring the majority are produced by famous Soviet propaganda mills such as the CATO institute and the Christian Science Monitor.
"Sounds great. As long as you do what you are told. Don't expect to have a lot of choices available to you. You might not have much available on the shelves to buy in stores, or money to buy anything anyway. And if you complain, you might wind up in a gulag far, far away to a place from which many never return."
Actually there's an excellent book by Yale University historian Michael Parenti that covers the nutritional data of the USSR and show that following reconstruction after the genocide carried out by the Nazis they had roughtly the same nutritional intake as people in the US, it's called Blackshirts and Reds; Another source.
Maybe you should learn another language, I speak three of them, really opens your eyes, perhaps talk to some people from these places instead buying into CIA fairie tales.
