• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Is this some contemporary soviet propaganda? I mean all the people who died for political reasons or because the state economy was mismanaged probably don’t care much about these achievements.

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      2 months ago

      (To borrow from Cowbee’s comment a bit) Wealth inequality was far lower in the Soviet Union’s socialist system than the Tsarist system before it, the capitalist system after it was overthrown (obviously), and than western capitalist countries in the same time period.

      https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-and-property-russia-1905-2016

      Source

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        No wonder then that 90% of the Soviet population voted to stay in the Union, but of course that didn’t stop its overthrow because capitalists had already taken it over by then.

        A poll in 2009

        As time passes though, the capitalist propaganda that kids in these places grow up with will probably start to outweigh the lived experiences of worsened living conditions after capitalists overthrew the USSR that their parents had. It’s sad.

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        Funny you focus on whatever this is and conveniently ignore the millions murdered by the state.

        I’m here because my family escaped that shit.

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          Funny you focus on whatever this is

          Is it a bad thing to highlight that wealth disparity dramatically shrank in the USSR and dramatically increased in the Russian Federation?

          and conveniently ignore the millions murdered by the state.

          Are you referring to Nazi sympathizers, the Tsarist White Army, or Capitalist insurgents?

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          Mine too, it’s hard to call the dissolution of USSR illegal when it was initiated by people escaping Soviet bloc countries in droves.

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          Exactly. This is probably a moron who read about USSR on facebook. Those were horrible times full of oppression and corruption. I was raised in one of the sattelite countries and no. Those were bad very bad times unless you were a child of a small corrupted russian boot licker.

    • Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’m sure homeless people and victims of the opioid crisis in the US also don’t care about US achievements in for example the olympics but people still talk about them.