☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Socialism@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agoThe USSR was the spine of the global working classlemmy.mlimagemessage-square161linkfedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down182
arrow-up183arrow-down1imageThe USSR was the spine of the global working classlemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Socialism@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square161linkfedilink
minus-squareTranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down11·8 days agoTbf, pretty much all Soviet satellite states were/are post communist states.
minus-squareZeroHora@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down2·8 days agoBut if they grew up in a post communist state their experience about USSR doesn’t hold, they didn’t live during USSR, they lived after it.
minus-squareTranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up12·8 days agoI’m sure there is some conflating going on with the fall of communism and the “shock therapy” after. Even if not, it’s not really like the 80s under Gorb were really what any left leaning person likes to recall when we think of the Soviet union.
Tbf, pretty much all Soviet satellite states were/are post communist states.
But if they grew up in a post communist state their experience about USSR doesn’t hold, they didn’t live during USSR, they lived after it.
I’m sure there is some conflating going on with the fall of communism and the “shock therapy” after. Even if not, it’s not really like the 80s under Gorb were really what any left leaning person likes to recall when we think of the Soviet union.