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  • Derg main issue was Amhara chauvinism (I think it wasnt really set out to be that way, just amhara socialists ended up not dying & Ethiopia was an empire with its own baggage), Somalia wasnt an ML/socialist state more like Niger or Mali today thats why the soviets eventually switched to the derg primarily, Eritrea was a liberatory fight against Ethiopia due to aforementioned chauvinism and geopolitical concerns, it was actually supported by the arab states and cuba at first, while israhell & usa supported imperial Ethiopia but then the roles switched lol

    Eritrea acted as the gulf/Zionist guard against Yemen & Houthis, but their relationship has tapered off, Eritrea kicked out UAE bases recently.

    Tigray was in allied to Eritrea at first but wanted a soviet union style Ethiopia not balkanization, there is also historic cultural & religious tensions between the two (Eritrea as coastal territory got more investments by the arabs, turks and then italians), which eventually led to their falling out, TPLF became the leaders of post-communist Ethiopia (a conflicted mediated by Jimmy Carter), so it kinda becomes obvious why they would eventually be captured by Zionist interests.

    Horn politics are underrated, sadly marxist barely have good resources for the whole conflict - so whacko african warlord stories are the norm.



  • Under Khrushchev, revisionist elements became mainstream, success became no longer an internal characteristic but one entirely dependent on the west, the west was the definition of “success” and if “couldn’t compete” with the west, then it was a failure, western culture became hegemonic over soviet one - the system rotted from the top down. And the soviet union tried to spread this view into the rest of the Warsaw Pact states.

    East Germany had it worst because it was economically isolated (basically non-recognised by most states, which the soviet union never really pushed for) but not culturally, one could argue that the east german leadership survivors of the camps and purged by the nazis never really trusted most of its own populace and hoped to “wait them out” and hope for the next generation to be “better”, ironically it was the boomers & older gen x who brought down the GDR, not those who had lived under nazi rule and had various degrees of complicity. So it wasn’t 70 years of socialist institutions breaking down suddenly, but socialist institutions serving decades and decades of rot, until not even the proletarians believed socialism was going to work.