“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” (Orwell, 1949) George Orwell is a well-known propaganda writer that spoke against communism, especially the Soviet Union. In his novel 1984, he wrote about a government spying and using cruelty against its own people. This type of fictional propaganda of communism highlighted some of the many why the United States and so many other countries were distrustful of the Soviet Union. Although the people of the Soviet Union were strengthened by the ignorance the government planted in their brains, this strength was not strong enough to keep the government going. The eventual downfall of the Soviet Union’s communist government in 1991 has several sources, including tensions from different ethnicities, economic downfall, and the Cold War, but the key factor was one man: Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Communism, as a basic term, is the creation of a profit-based economy, transforming private ownership into government ownership. (Britannica) Essentially, it takes the Three Musketeers’ catchphrase and applies it to how the government is run. “One for all” can be translated into how the government theoretically takes care of its people. “All for one” is translated by the nullification of privately owned lands and properties and the government claim on what was previously owned.
Karl Marx identified two separate phases of communism that, if performed correctly, would overthrow capitalist government. In the first phase, the people of the country would run the government as well as the economy. -----
However, the Soviet Union did not follow this form of ideal communism.
Communism, as a basic term, is the creation of a profit-based economy, transforming private ownership into government ownership. (Britannica) Essentially, it takes the Three Musketeers’ catchphrase and applies it to how the government is run. “One for all” can be translated into how the government theoretically takes care of its people. “All for one” is translated by the nullification of privately owned lands and properties and the government claim on what was previously owned.
Karl Marx identified two separate phases of communism that, if performed correctly, would overthrow capitalist government. In the first phase, the people of the country would run the government as well as the economy. -----
However, the Soviet Union did not follow this form of ideal communism.