Value was taken away from those who needed it (example case holomodor)
You’re telling me that the first attempt in history at collectivisation of land wasn’t perfect? Damn, communism destroyed. Fyi, land collectivisation was carried out by poor farmers, and they were so bloody and excessive against Kulaks that the party had to go and impose limits on how many people were declared Kulak per region. Holodomor was a tragedy as a result of a poor first attempt in history at land collectivisation, not an intended extraction of value of workers from a given place at a given time, as proven by the fact that when land collectivisation ended, nothing like that ever happened again.
Especially in occupied areas, non-russians were treated as 2nd class citizens and partially eradicated (insert “go to gulag” -meme. See also: genocide)
The Stalinist terror can and should be condemned. It was senseless, excessive, cruel, inhumane, and worst of all, unfounded and pointless. But trying to add racial/ethnical undertones to it is ahistorical. It happened to Russians and Georgians and Armenians and Uzbeki alike.
So quick online search already shows you that it had nothing to do with equality between the men and women, but about better abusing women’s labor. Just like in a capitalist society
Sure, that’s why women would retire at 55 compared to 60 years old for men. That’s why there were widely available restaurants and canteens in cities and food service in workplaces to relieve women from the burden of cooking. That’s why there was a wide availability of kindergarten to rid women of the burden of child rearing. But oh yeah, you did a quick online search, which totally proves that feminism in the USSR was actually not true feminism somehow!
While propaganda claimed, accurately, that more women sat in the Supreme Soviet than in most democratic countries’ legislative bodies combined
So wait, you’re telling me, that the country with more women in the Supreme Soviet than in basically the rest of the worlds’ legislative bodies combined, wasn’t pioneer in feminism? I’m not saying it was feminist to 2024 standards, or that it was perfect, but it was by FAR the most progressive country on earth at the time.
Your ideas don’t mean a shit if your actions don’t reflect it
The USSR was the only country to sell weapons to republican Spain (I’m Spanish) in their struggle against fascism. They provided immense help to China in its early industrial development through technological exchange and sending experts to their economy, as they did with most other socialist countries at the time. The USSR was a beacon of internationalism in an otherwise capitalist hellhole of a planet. Key note in internationalism, the USSR itself had an incredible national diversity between its republics, with most people in central Asian republics not even speaking Russian after 7 decades of USSR. Industrial development being boosted in the poorest republics such as Central Asia, equal access to medicine and healthcare in all republics, education being provided in the local language of the republics… Fuck me if that’s not internationalist solidarity as opposed to nationalism.
The unions were led and controlled by the communist party
If unions were so bad and useless, but voluntary to join, why was the USSR the country with the highest unionization rate? The myth of “they were controlled by the communist party” is, well, just a myth. Some things that Unions did: Controlling important aspects of production. Enforcing workplace safety regulation. Organizing educational activities for workers by workers, and training for higher positions. Providing access to doctors and medical revisions. Providing access to affordable housing. Choosing representatives to make their demands. Electing higher positions within the workplace. Providing announcement boards and periodical publications with complaints and remarks of workers for everyone in the workplace to read.
Spoken like a true Marxist
You’re telling me that the first attempt in history at collectivisation of land wasn’t perfect? Damn, communism destroyed. Fyi, land collectivisation was carried out by poor farmers, and they were so bloody and excessive against Kulaks that the party had to go and impose limits on how many people were declared Kulak per region. Holodomor was a tragedy as a result of a poor first attempt in history at land collectivisation, not an intended extraction of value of workers from a given place at a given time, as proven by the fact that when land collectivisation ended, nothing like that ever happened again.
The Stalinist terror can and should be condemned. It was senseless, excessive, cruel, inhumane, and worst of all, unfounded and pointless. But trying to add racial/ethnical undertones to it is ahistorical. It happened to Russians and Georgians and Armenians and Uzbeki alike.
Sure, that’s why women would retire at 55 compared to 60 years old for men. That’s why there were widely available restaurants and canteens in cities and food service in workplaces to relieve women from the burden of cooking. That’s why there was a wide availability of kindergarten to rid women of the burden of child rearing. But oh yeah, you did a quick online search, which totally proves that feminism in the USSR was actually not true feminism somehow!
So wait, you’re telling me, that the country with more women in the Supreme Soviet than in basically the rest of the worlds’ legislative bodies combined, wasn’t pioneer in feminism? I’m not saying it was feminist to 2024 standards, or that it was perfect, but it was by FAR the most progressive country on earth at the time.
The USSR was the only country to sell weapons to republican Spain (I’m Spanish) in their struggle against fascism. They provided immense help to China in its early industrial development through technological exchange and sending experts to their economy, as they did with most other socialist countries at the time. The USSR was a beacon of internationalism in an otherwise capitalist hellhole of a planet. Key note in internationalism, the USSR itself had an incredible national diversity between its republics, with most people in central Asian republics not even speaking Russian after 7 decades of USSR. Industrial development being boosted in the poorest republics such as Central Asia, equal access to medicine and healthcare in all republics, education being provided in the local language of the republics… Fuck me if that’s not internationalist solidarity as opposed to nationalism.
If unions were so bad and useless, but voluntary to join, why was the USSR the country with the highest unionization rate? The myth of “they were controlled by the communist party” is, well, just a myth. Some things that Unions did: Controlling important aspects of production. Enforcing workplace safety regulation. Organizing educational activities for workers by workers, and training for higher positions. Providing access to doctors and medical revisions. Providing access to affordable housing. Choosing representatives to make their demands. Electing higher positions within the workplace. Providing announcement boards and periodical publications with complaints and remarks of workers for everyone in the workplace to read.