Not a particular fan of the USSR but 100% I wish it was the usa that disbanded in 1991. Miserable place that exports war and suffering, and it used to blugeon the proles by saying “be grateful for what you have, it’s worse in the USA”.
Garbage place, I visited once and it was literally stomach turning how much suffering was surrounded by so much wealth. The only places I’ve seen more miserable and places the USA has been colonising or bombing.
I think it makes for interesting reading, as even this rather adversarial document seems to indicate that the propagandised view of them is exaggerated. They do point out some nutty things, some of which were improved.
I think the idea that the USSR was some uniquely evil place is just patently false, it seems to be pretty ordinary in the evil produced, ahead of its time in some regards (e.g. women’s rights, certain ethnicities inclusions, anti homeless architecture etc), and dissapointingly typical in other regards like treatment of lgbt people, mental illness, exclusion of certain ethnicities, approach to criminal rehabilitation and so on.
Not a particular fan of the USSR but 100% I wish it was the usa that disbanded in 1991. Miserable place that exports war and suffering, and it used to blugeon the proles by saying “be grateful for what you have, it’s worse in the USA”.
Garbage place, I visited once and it was literally stomach turning how much suffering was surrounded by so much wealth. The only places I’ve seen more miserable and places the USA has been colonising or bombing.
Also just because it sort of pisses me off when people have strong opinions on shit they know nothing about here is a CIA report on the gulags from 1957 https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00246A032000400001-1.pdf
I think it makes for interesting reading, as even this rather adversarial document seems to indicate that the propagandised view of them is exaggerated. They do point out some nutty things, some of which were improved.
I think the idea that the USSR was some uniquely evil place is just patently false, it seems to be pretty ordinary in the evil produced, ahead of its time in some regards (e.g. women’s rights, certain ethnicities inclusions, anti homeless architecture etc), and dissapointingly typical in other regards like treatment of lgbt people, mental illness, exclusion of certain ethnicities, approach to criminal rehabilitation and so on.