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Turned red after finding out that (lemmy.world)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just wait until you find out about what the US was doing in East and Southeast Asia at the time. There isn't a single criticism you can make of the USSR that the West wasn't doing bigger and more savagely.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I 10000% agree and that is my entire point.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is it? Because it's the same point I made, yet you seem to be arguing against it.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not

    Human rights were also quite strong in the USSR,

    That is what you said. I'm saying human rights were weak globally. You are playing a this or that game, I am speaking broadly of the world at the time but your focus on the USSR and trying to champion it is what has dialed in the conversation to that topic.

    Also, you're all over this thread bud relax. Nobody will take the USSR from you, it'll still be there later.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Human rights can only be measured against their historical context with any degree of validity. Our human rights today across the globe will be considered horrendously barbaric compared to a century from now. Placing the soviet union in its historical context makes it unambiguously an enormously progressive project.

    As for being all over the thread, that's neither here nor there. The points are the points.

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