I mean he also helped the Cubans, the Chinese, the Africans, and continued some of the Stalin-era plans. I feel like I’m also forgetting something else I’d say that was nice about him, but I’ll probably remember later.
Anyways point is, is that he did good things and bad things through out his life and that we shouldn’t wholesale throw out his experience as one of the leaders of the Communist movement - unlike how he threw Stalin under the bus - and ultimately try to be objective in judging his professional career. By my judgement being that he was lightyears and galaxies ahead of any president we’ve had or will ever have under this government and in the sino-soviet split I would side with the Soviet as being on the right side of history. That said I would still have him and several other rightists as face trial as opportunists of the highest order and be liquidated.
To give him credit for “helping the Chinese” when he destroyed sino-soviet relations is, uh, not reasonable. He destroyed hundreds of arrangements made under Stalin for the cooperation between the two nations and the purchase of technology by China because China didn’t want to host Soviet military basis (or denounce Stalin). China went on to pursue dreadful foreign policy, but Khrushchev is absolutely at fault for the initial split.
He did help Cuba though and gets full credit for that.
He followed through with the majority of the deal set by the Stalin-era presidium of significantly pouring Soviet resources, technology, expertise, etc. into China to help them get the first step towards modernization, in addition to trying to temper Mao’s, almost Trotskyite, desire to assertively spread the Revolution in a post-nuke world.
And Khrushchev may be at fault for causing the split, but it’s Mao’s fault for exacerbating it to the point that the PRC - even after the ultra-left gang of four and well into the period of time the CPC is in the grasp of Rightists - conducts objective harm to the international communist movement by siding with America against the Soviet Union several times over the decades.
I mean he also helped the Cubans, the Chinese, the Africans, and continued some of the Stalin-era plans. I feel like I’m also forgetting something else I’d say that was nice about him, but I’ll probably remember later.
Anyways point is, is that he did good things and bad things through out his life and that we shouldn’t wholesale throw out his experience as one of the leaders of the Communist movement - unlike how he threw Stalin under the bus - and ultimately try to be objective in judging his professional career. By my judgement being that he was lightyears and galaxies ahead of any president we’ve had or will ever have under this government and in the sino-soviet split I would side with the Soviet as being on the right side of history. That said I would still have him and several other rightists as face trial as opportunists of the highest order and be liquidated.
To give him credit for “helping the Chinese” when he destroyed sino-soviet relations is, uh, not reasonable. He destroyed hundreds of arrangements made under Stalin for the cooperation between the two nations and the purchase of technology by China because China didn’t want to host Soviet military basis (or denounce Stalin). China went on to pursue dreadful foreign policy, but Khrushchev is absolutely at fault for the initial split.
He did help Cuba though and gets full credit for that.
He followed through with the majority of the deal set by the Stalin-era presidium of significantly pouring Soviet resources, technology, expertise, etc. into China to help them get the first step towards modernization, in addition to trying to temper Mao’s, almost Trotskyite, desire to assertively spread the Revolution in a post-nuke world.
And Khrushchev may be at fault for causing the split, but it’s Mao’s fault for exacerbating it to the point that the PRC - even after the ultra-left gang of four and well into the period of time the CPC is in the grasp of Rightists - conducts objective harm to the international communist movement by siding with America against the Soviet Union several times over the decades.