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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How the USSR implemented socialism was pretty great in practice, the real history of it has just been hidden from you behind the thick fog of cold-war anticommunist propaganda.

Here's a good intro video: Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the USSR

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yellow Parenti is best Parenti

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone mentions soviets suck and the tankies come out of the woodwork.

“USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Learn to have a conversation.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of people don't realize that the Soviet Union was seen as a bastion of democracy before the cold war, because it genuinely got a lot right.

In fact, it was democratic to a fault. Ultimately it was the people who voted to bring capitalism into the country. It was all downhill from there.