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        Yeah but the circle of people with such view on history isn’t exactly very diverse. Maoists, trots (depending on which period of USSR we ask), maybe nazbols.

        I guess it could also be russian nationalists, from that weird type that think both USSR and Russian Empire were good.

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            2 years ago

            Yes, Deng reforms could be viewed very ambiguously. Imagine if after Deng came people like Gorbachev and Yeltsin instead of Jiang, Hu and Xi, we would now be speaking the exact points that maoists are, but it would be true.

            As i chose to view it, is that Deng did a huge leap of trust in the future generations, and they, especially Xi, did not betrayed that trust.

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            I wish people on the ultra-left would understand its not that we love deng

            Or that we “love” anyone. We’re just capable of putting things in historical context and understanding the pros and cons of their actions