[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Rob Volatile 🇺🇸 🦅 🎸 [@RobVolatile](/creator/twitter/RobVolatile) on x 1098 followers Created: 2025-07-18 02:29:50 UTC Ok, I fully disagree, but let’s talk about all the socialist successes: 🔥 Socialism’s Historical Collapses and What They Became X. Soviet Union (1917–1991) Started as: Marxist-Leninist socialism Became: Totalitarian dictatorship under Stalin Outcomes:    •   Gulags, secret police, show trials    •   Holodomor famine: 3–7 million dead in Ukraine    •   Collapse of economy → fall of USSR From worker’s paradise to iron-fisted state control and collapse. ⸻ X. China (Mao Era, 1949–1976) Started as: Marxist socialism Became: Cult of personality + brutal authoritarianism Outcomes:    •   Great Leap Forward: ~30–45 million dead (man-made famine)    •   Cultural Revolution: intellectual purge, national trauma    •   Economic model abandoned for capitalism after Mao’s death Socialist rhetoric masked one of the deadliest regimes in history. ⸻ X. Cambodia (Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979) Started as: Agrarian socialism Became: Genocidal communist dictatorship Outcomes:    •   XXX million people murdered (1 in X Cambodians)    •   Money abolished, cities emptied Tried to build a classless society—buried a quarter of the population. ⸻ X. North Korea (1948–present) Started as: Juche socialism Became: Hereditary dictatorship, starvation, surveillance state Outcomes:    •   Constant famine, labor camps, no freedom    •   GDP per capita worse than 19th-century Europe Socialism calcified into the most Orwellian regime on Earth. ⸻ X. Venezuela (1999–present) Started as: Democratic socialism under Hugo Chávez Became: Authoritarian kleptocracy under Nicolás Maduro Outcomes:    •   Hyperinflation, food shortages, 7+ million refugees    •   Rigged elections, armed suppression From free healthcare to no toilet paper. ⸻ X. East Germany (1949–1990) Started as: Soviet-style socialism Became: Police state behind the Berlin Wall Outcomes:    •   Stasi surveillance, travel bans, border killings    •   Collapsed the moment it opened It had to lock people in to stop them from fleeing paradise. ⸻ X. Cuba (1959–present) Started as: Marxist socialism under Castro Became: One-party authoritarian state Outcomes:    •   60+ years of poverty, oppression, and exile    •   Political prisoners and executions Healthcare was free. So was the prison sentence for speaking freely. ⸻ X. Zimbabwe (1980–2000s) Started as: Socialist land redistribution Became: Corrupt dictatorship under Robert Mugabe Outcomes:    •   Hyperinflation (100 trillion dollar notes)    •   Economic collapse, famine Socialist ideal became a printing press for poverty. ⸻ 🧠Pattern: Every Time… 1.Starts with class equality, wealth redistribution 2.Turns into centralization, censorship, militarized control 3.Ends in collapse, famine, or dictatorship “You always run out of other people’s money. Then you run out of food. Then you run out of freedom.” XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) [Post Link](https://x.com/RobVolatile/status/1946034646812115393)
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Rob Volatile 🇺🇸 🦅 🎸 @RobVolatile on x 1098 followers
Created: 2025-07-18 02:29:50 UTC
Ok, I fully disagree, but let’s talk about all the socialist successes:
🔥 Socialism’s Historical Collapses and What They Became
X. Soviet Union (1917–1991)
Started as: Marxist-Leninist socialism Became: Totalitarian dictatorship under Stalin Outcomes:    •   Gulags, secret police, show trials    •   Holodomor famine: 3–7 million dead in Ukraine    •   Collapse of economy → fall of USSR
From worker’s paradise to iron-fisted state control and collapse.
⸻
X. China (Mao Era, 1949–1976)
Started as: Marxist socialism Became: Cult of personality + brutal authoritarianism Outcomes:    •   Great Leap Forward: ~30–45 million dead (man-made famine)    •   Cultural Revolution: intellectual purge, national trauma    •   Economic model abandoned for capitalism after Mao’s death
Socialist rhetoric masked one of the deadliest regimes in history.
⸻
X. Cambodia (Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979)
Started as: Agrarian socialism Became: Genocidal communist dictatorship Outcomes:    •   XXX million people murdered (1 in X Cambodians)    •   Money abolished, cities emptied
Tried to build a classless society—buried a quarter of the population.
⸻
X. North Korea (1948–present)
Started as: Juche socialism Became: Hereditary dictatorship, starvation, surveillance state Outcomes:    •   Constant famine, labor camps, no freedom    •   GDP per capita worse than 19th-century Europe
Socialism calcified into the most Orwellian regime on Earth.
⸻
X. Venezuela (1999–present)
Started as: Democratic socialism under Hugo Chávez Became: Authoritarian kleptocracy under Nicolás Maduro Outcomes:    •   Hyperinflation, food shortages, 7+ million refugees    •   Rigged elections, armed suppression
From free healthcare to no toilet paper.
⸻
X. East Germany (1949–1990)
Started as: Soviet-style socialism Became: Police state behind the Berlin Wall Outcomes:    •   Stasi surveillance, travel bans, border killings    •   Collapsed the moment it opened
It had to lock people in to stop them from fleeing paradise.
⸻
X. Cuba (1959–present)
Started as: Marxist socialism under Castro Became: One-party authoritarian state Outcomes:    •   60+ years of poverty, oppression, and exile    •   Political prisoners and executions
Healthcare was free. So was the prison sentence for speaking freely.
⸻
X. Zimbabwe (1980–2000s)
Started as: Socialist land redistribution Became: Corrupt dictatorship under Robert Mugabe Outcomes:    •   Hyperinflation (100 trillion dollar notes)    •   Economic collapse, famine
Socialist ideal became a printing press for poverty.
⸻
🧠Pattern: Every Time… 1.Starts with class equality, wealth redistribution 2.Turns into centralization, censorship, militarized control 3.Ends in collapse, famine, or dictatorship
“You always run out of other people’s money. Then you run out of food. Then you run out of freedom.”
XXXXX engagements
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