I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    The Politburo still didn’t have absolute or near-absolute power. There was lots of regional autonomy in the SSRs and SFSRs, and democratization was more thorough than in capitalist countries.