Adam Kadmon@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 年前Not sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down18
arrow-up114arrow-down1imageNot sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that...lemmy.mlAdam Kadmon@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 年前message-square96fedilink
minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 年前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
minus-squareteft@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 年前Anyone mentions soviets suck and the tankies come out of the woodwork. “USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 年前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.
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
Yellow Parenti is best Parenti
Anyone mentions soviets suck and the tankies come out of the woodwork.
“USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”
Learn to have a conversation.
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.