Actually I think buh is Cormac McCarthy

It’s from blood Meridian

I don’t hate him. To be generous, you could say his stance wrt the Soviet Union rhetorically useful. I do think there are other historians sympathetic to the Soviet Union that are more rigorous than him, Moshe Lewin or Domenico Losurdo for instance.

At what point in the history of the roman empire did the Praetorian guard fall apart?

Sorry we just don’t like politicians who enable genocide

Notable previous employment: she worked for a lawfirm hired by Chevron in the Donzinger case.

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Shadow employs dialectics

It is, Rosetta Stone is a pen name of his.

It was definitely initiated from the top down I would say. But at the end of the day, whatever mass strikes, work actions, and army mutinies occured were not enough to stop Yeltsin and the west from dissolving the SU into what it is now.

I don’t want to mean this as blaming the average Soviet citizen but the fact is; whether from apathy with the old system, or naive hope that westernising would bring prosperity, or being outgunned by Yeltsins military, they and their organisations were sadly unable to defend the Soviet republics. All communists need to take sober lessons here. If it is the first task of the workers’ party to instill a revolutionary spirit in the working class, the second and even harder one must be to convert that spirit into a mass commitment to the socialist project.

You could try using the UNRWA reports or aid tracking to help find out, better than using israels info.