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minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down16·1 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-squarebanneryear1868@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoYellow Parenti is best Parenti
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the USSR Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareteft@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down14·1 year agoAnyone mentions soviets suck and the tankies come out of the woodwork. “USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”
minus-squareCatfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·1 year agoLearn to have a conversation.
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·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
Yellow Parenti is best Parenti
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the USSR
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Anyone mentions soviets suck and the tankies come out of the woodwork.
“USsR was just misunderstood. Swearsies.”
Learn to have a conversation.
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.