breaking news! german goes COMMUNIST as they "NATIONALIZE" russian gas giants Gazprom and Rosneft!!
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It’s not just communist regimes that nationalize companies. For one example, Fascist Italy did a lot of nationalization, and fascists and commies generally don’t get along.
Maybe there’s legitimate reason to criticize what’s happening, but nationalization, by itself, doesn’t make a government communist.
Yeah no, this was definitely the only good move left to the German government. Russia was initiating an economic coup by changing the ownership structure of Gazprom Germania (which has critical influence on energy infrastructure in Germany) in such a way that they would be able to unilaterally terminate the favorable contracts of Germany, basically taking much of Germany’s energy infrastructure hostage so that we have to pay in ruble or have to pay more than we previously wanted to, all the while giving Russia the excuse that it itself was not at all illegally terminating contracts to do so (Russia has cultivated an image of always being on point with their gas and oil, even in times of crisis, but it obviously wants to force the situation here).
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with communism. Try again asshole.
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