“in perpetuity” they normalized relations with a country that absolutely will put boots on the ground to kill them. for multiple reasons, yeltsin and gorbachev have jackshit to do with this. for one, they destroyed a genuine dictatorship of the proletariat. venezuela was never that. the organs of proletarian power in venezuela lie outside the state, and so long as they still stand, what right do you have to compare this to 91? none at all. on the eve of the collapse of the empire, you demand that these countries destroy themselves first. you insist that venezuelans, with no regard to their material position, immediately put on a show of force against the biggest empire in the world. you would see venezuelan communism destroyed just so you could jerk yourself off about how noble they were. you are the height of the western left. your martyr complex won’t build socialism anywhere.