The Basic Forms Of Tyranny-Part Five Session Nine (Communist Party Tyranny)

The Basic Forms Of Tyranny-Part Five Session Nine (Communist Party Tyranny)

The Soviet Empire (Soviet Union and Eastern Europe) overzealously promoted egalitarianism, which is an aggressive form of equality. Obviously this measure was tyrannical as tyranny was employed to maintain egalitarianism.

However as cited previously there is, in many forms of tyranny, components of legitimacy. Of course the "Big Bear" with all its authoritarianism had to go away but for it to go away instantly made the situation much worse. Egalitarianism artificially and totally suppressed cultural, social, economic, and racial/ethic disparities. Once the "floodgates 'opened" as this highly controlling system came to a grinding halt, these above-mentioned disparities overwhelmed the societies of the newly reformed and created nations.

If an individual is badly addicted to drugs or alcohol, the last thing he/she should do is go "cold turkey". That individual must be gradually allowed to wean off of this addiction. In other words that addict still needs to take drugs or alcohol in lesser amounts over a specific period before he/she eventually becomes drug-free. That same principle applies to an authoritarian system. It has to be dismantled methodically so that the "hole in the ship" can be properly repaired.

Three years after the end of the Russian Civil War, there were no violent internal uprisings in the Soviet Union until the last three years of its existence. Simply put there were no violent conflicts in the Soviet Union for 64 years. Moreover after the end of World War Two till the Communist collapse, there were no conflicts in the Eastern Bloc nations except for the brief uprising in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

As USSR started to collapse, social disintegration and political instability caused ethnic conflict to surge. Social and economic disparities, along with ethnic/racial differences, created an upsurge in nationalism within groups and discrimination between groups. Territorial boundaries between states experiencing political transition and upheaval have been the root cause of conflict and division. Since the republics within the USSR and the other satellite nations in the Soviet orbit were divorcing themselves from the Soviet Communist Empirical System, they needed time and patience to sort things out. When this did not happen, so much strife and violent conflicts were the result. Thirty years later, the aftermath effects are still being keenly felt throughout that former hegemonic empire.

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