While Stalin was a monstrous tyrant, the Soviet Union is a large, complex and long-lived structure which did both good and bad for the citizens and the world.
Nothing should be romanticised, but it’s worth pondering both what went wrong and what went right.
I don’t think communism and ussr were saints free of all sin but on the other side of the coin I also think there is a lot of things about communism that were made up to make it look worse than it was, I mean capitalism did some propaganda. I used to live in a city that was formerly East Germany and I did ask around what people remember what it was like and what they thought was better, and most of them said they preferred the old system, one or two things are better now but the general quality of life now is worse. Me, being Portuguese, and therefor bombarded with capitalist propaganda since birth was completely 🤯
While Stalin was a monstrous tyrant, the Soviet Union is a large, complex and long-lived structure which did both good and bad for the citizens and the world.
Nothing should be romanticised, but it’s worth pondering both what went wrong and what went right.
Also, OP is making a joke.
I don’t think communism and ussr were saints free of all sin but on the other side of the coin I also think there is a lot of things about communism that were made up to make it look worse than it was, I mean capitalism did some propaganda. I used to live in a city that was formerly East Germany and I did ask around what people remember what it was like and what they thought was better, and most of them said they preferred the old system, one or two things are better now but the general quality of life now is worse. Me, being Portuguese, and therefor bombarded with capitalist propaganda since birth was completely 🤯