Tomorrow_Farewell

Regarding NATO, neither Hungary nor Turkey would ever permit this to happen and everyone knows it.

They both agreed to let Finland and Sweden to become formal members of this genocidal gang, so this claim does not have a good basis in reality.

Admission into NATO requires 100% support for all existing nations. Russia knows this would never happen.

What is this claim based on? How do you know that NATO's owners wouldn't just threaten the dissenters the way they actually did with Hungary?

That doesn't mean I think it's good.

It's a state formed as a result of an anti-colonial movement fighting for liberation against your empire. Your empire killed millions of its people, destroyed what they had, and currently maintains a genocidal blockade against it.
Despite all that, it manages to hang on, and, considering the harrassment and assault from your empire, it also manages to provide its people with much better living standards than what one would expect from many states that you do not complain about (and which are not targets of the same sort of blockades). Also, you just plain haven't even brought up any wrongdoings that the DPRK has supposedly done.

Overall, I would say that that does make the DPRK fairly good as far as states go.

And obviously false memes like the OP don't convince me that there is any sincerity in its defenders.

Either you are unfamiliar with the resolution in question and are assuming that the OP lied (without you double-checking), or you know that the OP didn't lie and are trying to engage in spreading your genocidal empire's false propaganda.

Like it’s within Russia’s interests to not “balance the budget,” and as a massive, resource rich nation that is somewhat disconnected from a lot of the world’s supply chain they have the capacity to do so. Surely someone in Russia’s government knows this?

Nobody in the Russian government has an economic interest to do this. Everybody in the government is interested in maintaining a capitalist economy, in slowly enriching capitalists, and in maintaining Russia's position as a semi-peripheral state. To act against that would require such an actor to fight the rest of the government.

Nor is Putin capable of achieving anything of such scale.

And, considering the fact that Putin is a liberal, there aren't even superstructural reasons for him to do so.

which is what Putin fears the most (that the Russian civilization will terminate in his hands)

You are trying to engage in mind-reading here, and your claim is contradicted by the fact that Putin was on the anti-communist side when anti-communists were rapidly destroying Russia.

And even after Stalin’s death, the liberal policies immediately came back.

Trying to equate attempts at liberalising the economy of the USSR in in the 60s-70s with the current situation is quite silly. The economy was still a planned economy, and the leadership was not a liberal government. The economy of Russia currently is very obviously not that, and the government has neither basic, nor superstructural reasons to turn it into a planned one.

What is it with people desperately trying to demonise the DPRK as if you you weren't fed obvious lies since you were born?

Getting distracted by green disks.

The populace of Taiwan need to consent to being governed by the PRC, and currently support for one China in Taiwan is very low, based on what I've read.

The state that currently rules Taiwan engaged in white terror and killed dissidents. The population of Taiwan obviously did not consent to that, but you accept their rule just fine. So, you are inconsistent.

Furthermore, that state is a collaborator for the most evil polity in the world - NATO. That means that the considerations of their population's wants are secondary to stopping the horrors that NATO has been inflicting upon the world.

Stalin's government tremendously improved the living standards of people in its territory, and compares favourably to almost all (if not all) European leaderships of 20th and 21st centuries (including European settler-colonies, but those are even more obviously awful). I'd say that he wasn't 'shitty'.

Preventing Hungary from participating in colonialism, including by invading Iraq and Afghanistan, is not some sort of oppression that you try to imply it to be.

It is unfortunate but I have to say this: unlike China today, the Soviet workers enjoyed the full welfare and protection of their rights as workers, did not have to worry about being unemployed, did not have to live paycheck to paycheck, did not have to pay mortgage, received free education and healthcare of the highest quality, enjoyed labor rights including working hours comparable to those of the “wealthier” social democratic Western European working class, and most impressive of all, the Soviet government continued to pay out full pension and free healthcare throughout the entire Great Patriotic War (WWII) even when unthinkable deaths and destructions were happening all around the country and the world.

It's frankly silly how many people - even on this forum - have succumbed to capitalist realism to the degree where they do not understand the benefits of planned economies over privatised ones.

So, the actual predictor for 'doing alright' is colonialism, and not capitalism.

Nobel Peace Prize is consistently given to awful people like these.