The older I get, the more I realize how based Khrushchev was.
>Oversaw the peak of Soviet prosperity
>Oversaw the growth of the socialist camp to its greatest extent
>Put down counter-revolutionaries
>Brought humanity into space
>Made Kennedy shit himself
What's not to love? Has there ever been a Soviet premier as successful?
185 posts and 37 image replies omitted.>>574678Go ask your average prole outside the Imperial Core if he's religious or not, you might get a very surprising answer!
>>574677Atheism is idealist because by definition the lack of belief in a higher power necessitates either an infinite universe, which is impossible, or a universe that magicked itself into existence because it felt like it. Neither of these are scientific in the slightest. By contrast, recognition of a creator of the material world is an expression of materialism in its highest form and avoids the basic logical problems of atheism
>>574483He pushed for corn.
Fuck corn. We have too much of it and it’s the reason why burgers are so fucking fat.
>>574690 (me)
I honestly prey that Vietnam prays our cornfields with agent orange. It will make my people lose weight.
>>574682Most "religious" people dont really believe anyway - its just cultural baggage. How many "muslims" or african "christians" are waiting til marriage for sex, or not blaspheming.
"God" is just something you remember when you are in trouble and you pray to him, but to the illiterate masses, he has no theology, he is just the man in heaven who saves you from death.
>>574685Because the universe has a beginning. God properly defined cannot have a beginning because God is the greatest conceivable being. Some atheist philosophers circumvent this by essentially stating that the universe created itself via time-related shenangians.
Anyhow the question of whether we have a creator or not is irrelevant. Even if we do have one its clear that this God resembles a cosmic supercomputer detached from human lives more than the benign Sky-father
>>574707He already had power by 1956 lole
And if anyone was trying to coup, it would be Molotov and friends trying to kick him out without going through the proper democratic bodies. It was Comrade K who stopped their attempted coup, and the party supported him against the Anti-Party Group.
a very corntastic day to all
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