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

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yellow Parenti is best Parenti

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[–] teft@startrek.website -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

“USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -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.