☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Socialism@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 hours agoThe USSR was the spine of the global working classlemmy.mlimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1103
arrow-up1103imageThe USSR was the spine of the global working classlemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Socialism@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareZeroHora@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 hours 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-up2·6 hours 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.
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.