Something to make people think about it while they try to solve the cognitive dissonance, or to Atleast make them view it more than a simple totalitarian state where everything was bad and even the grass was white

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    starting basically from Zero in the 20s (really emphasize how poor and underdeveloped the USSR was in 1922), and then having to defend itself in a gargantuan, genocidal invasion from Nazis who killed 1 in every 6 people in the country.

    Go back another decade because it was also rocked by WWI and the incredibly bloody civil war where the Whites were funded and supported by like the entire West