I have no idea where to put this thread, history or politics, so it's going in the off topic. Anyways...
Could the USSR have stabilized the Middle East? Everyone would have been feed (even though not much) and everyone would have had a decent education (no matter how censored). Education usually exterminates radical thought. Not always, but usually. As well, with that form of socialism/communism, you get atheism. This would mean that there would be no radical religion stoning women to death for being raped. In fact, women would be seen as equal.
When comparing the USA to the USSR, there's no doubt that the USA is/was better. When comparing that kind of dictatorship to the kinds that are there now, and to how the people in these places are now, I think a USSR type of government would be better. There would no longer be ignorant goat herders killing and mutilating women, and you'd have a country educated enough to go to the moon.
I understand that allowing the USSR to get their hands on the oil fields would have spelled certain doom for everyone else while giving the socialist/communist countries much more money, meaning it'd be harder to bankrupt them, but it might have ended up better for the world if we allowed the middle east to be conquered by the Russians. That system still would have fallen anyways, eventually.
Could the USSR have stabilized the Middle East? Everyone would have been feed (even though not much) and everyone would have had a decent education (no matter how censored). Education usually exterminates radical thought. Not always, but usually. As well, with that form of socialism/communism, you get atheism. This would mean that there would be no radical religion stoning women to death for being raped. In fact, women would be seen as equal.
When comparing the USA to the USSR, there's no doubt that the USA is/was better. When comparing that kind of dictatorship to the kinds that are there now, and to how the people in these places are now, I think a USSR type of government would be better. There would no longer be ignorant goat herders killing and mutilating women, and you'd have a country educated enough to go to the moon.
I understand that allowing the USSR to get their hands on the oil fields would have spelled certain doom for everyone else while giving the socialist/communist countries much more money, meaning it'd be harder to bankrupt them, but it might have ended up better for the world if we allowed the middle east to be conquered by the Russians. That system still would have fallen anyways, eventually.
