I also came to recommend Roland Boer! “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” touches on the USSR (more than touches actually, it does have some in depth explanations) and there is quite a lot about Stalin, democracy in one party states, and Democratic Centralism that you’ll find relevant to you curiosity, OP.
Rare W for Hungary.
I can’t believe the EU settled on $90 bn from private banks to lend to Ukraine, basically putting all EU citizens on the hook for $90 bn + interest (I didn’t check the specifics but it could easily come out to ove $150 bn of EU citizen tax money going to private banks to repay this loan instead of going to their own healthcare and education and public services). As usual, the people who pay back the loan wouldn’t have been those who benefit from it or those who decided to take the loan in the first place. Truly a banker’s paradise.
Wow amazing how everyone committing genocide in Palestine says they can’t possibly be committing genocide in Palestine.
The funny thing is that nobody even asked Ukraine for help, Zelenskyy just volunteered it. Very odd timing, as one would expect Ukraine to need all the resources it has, and more, at this moment.