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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
@sirmaru
Just to set things right, in Stalinist Soviet Union dachas were owned by the Nomenclatura. Oligarchs are a phenomena of capitalist Russia.
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The Communist Party hierarchy, military leadership, secret police leadership and scientific leadership ARE the Oligarchy in Communist nations.
However, China's Oligarchy is now evolving to bring in Manufacturing and Technology leaders who may eventually dominate that Oligarchy as well.
Every nation in history has had an Oligarchy. Revolutions simply have replaced the old Oligarchy with a new Oligarchy.
Communist nations in the Eastern European Block had severe upheavals in the late 1980's and early 1990's and the old Oligarchies were replaced by new Oligarchies.
The American Revolution replaced the Oligarchy of Royals and Dukes with slave owners. The later American Civil War replaced the slave oligarchs with railroad and manufacturing oligarchs.
Today the American Oligarchy keeps changing with Technology Oligarchs gradually replacing manufacturing, shipping and banking Oligarchs. Changing Oligarchies like in America is the best system devised so far. A lucky few in every generation move from the Middle and Underclass into the Oligarchy. Descendants of Oligarchs remain in the Oligarchy for several generations.
The 1933 revolution in Germany replaced the Prussian Military and Manufacturing Oligarchs with Nazi Party and SS Oligarchs.
In Japan the 1945 war loss changed the land owning and military oligarchy to a manufacturing oligarchy which is now evolving to a technology oligarchy.
And so it goes down through history. However, in ALL nations the Underclass just kept on suffering. Changes in the faces of Oligarchs never helped them.