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          • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
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            2 days ago

            Really? I wouldn’t call it a success, seeing how it collapsed. Also it was horribly authoritarian. I don’t think you and I are ever going to get along.

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              2 days ago

              From illiterate to space bound in 50 years. It was absolutely a success. I’m guessing you don’t really know much about the USSR. You were force fed the idea that socialism is bad in school and it stuck, like most poorly educated Americans. The truth is socialism produces results very quickly. The people working for the people, rather than some shitty corporation. The USSR went from around 10% of the population being literate to 80% within 10 years. It was an incredible success. There’s plenty of information out there regarding the CIA basically just making shit up. The usual US propaganda that we now see with any country that shows socialist values today, such as China. We wouldn’t want the working class rising up.

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                1 day ago

                I think socialism is good actually. If you think that’s what the USSR was doing you drank the Kool aid.

                Edit: also: I’m not an American, good job making assumptions about me.

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                  1 day ago

                  There were significant changes throughout, but from what I’ve read, the early years were pretty magical. From illiteracy to space bound in 50 years is nothing to scoff at. Stalinism is very controversial, indeed.