Definitely not in the case of the USSR. They force-fed socialism down everyone’s throats so hard that as soon as they loosened their grip the people rebelled and went as liberal as possible, with russia speed-running the liberalism->autocracy pipeline. The USSR was an imperialist nation that forced its view of the world down its population, attempting to drown out peoples’ culture by calling that culture capitalist or fascist, ensuring that people hated them and everything they stood for. (Sending entire families to siberia when they first arrived didn’t help)
Even now. FOUR decades after the collapse. There is no socialist movement. No calls to get communism unbanned. All you can do is participate in the capitalist politics. The fallout even extended to anarchism. The people are so thrilled to finally “be free” (read: have people who speak our language rule over us) that any real attempt to challenge the state is seen as weird, not even dangerous. The only reason I’m the way I’m an anarchist is because of the internet and my mother, who is anarchist-adjacent (she handed me the book that turned me anarchist (“On anarchism” by chomsky (we all gotta start somewhere)).
You wanted a more experienced take. Here you go. A first hand account of someone living in a former USSR country, hating it with every inch of my being due to how much it fucked up all leftist politics here.
but yes, they did house a lot of people (including me right now (through inheritance)), and through that improved the standards of living, but that’s just something a successful country in the 20th century did I wouldn’t consider it specific to the ideology of the country.
Definitely not in the case of the USSR. They force-fed socialism down everyone’s throats so hard that as soon as they loosened their grip the people rebelled and went as liberal as possible, with russia speed-running the liberalism->autocracy pipeline. The USSR was an imperialist nation that forced its view of the world down its population, attempting to drown out peoples’ culture by calling that culture capitalist or fascist, ensuring that people hated them and everything they stood for. (Sending entire families to siberia when they first arrived didn’t help)
Even now. FOUR decades after the collapse. There is no socialist movement. No calls to get communism unbanned. All you can do is participate in the capitalist politics. The fallout even extended to anarchism. The people are so thrilled to finally “be free” (read: have people who speak our language rule over us) that any real attempt to challenge the state is seen as weird, not even dangerous. The only reason I’m the way I’m an anarchist is because of the internet and my mother, who is anarchist-adjacent (she handed me the book that turned me anarchist (“On anarchism” by chomsky (we all gotta start somewhere)).
You wanted a more experienced take. Here you go. A first hand account of someone living in a former USSR country, hating it with every inch of my being due to how much it fucked up all leftist politics here.
but yes, they did house a lot of people (including me right now (through inheritance)), and through that improved the standards of living, but that’s just something a successful country in the 20th century did I wouldn’t consider it specific to the ideology of the country.