Adam Kadmon@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoNot sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down15
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageNot sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that...lemmy.mlAdam Kadmon@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoHow 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-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoA 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
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.