ThereRisesARedStar

joined 2 years ago
[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Life expectancy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-021-00169-w

Oh yea, like if you are religious you are a threat to the state and therefore you are unfit for basically any leading role, or your property might be confiscated and you might be sent of to Siberia ?

Anti religion is needlessly antagonistic but also wasn't enforced like you are suggesting: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm

Lines for food namely bread and if the stars aligned meat.

According to the anti-communist cia their nutrition was in many ways better

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf

Also breadlines are common under capitalism.

Big amount of corruption ?

Yes, theft from the public has definitely decreased since the the collapse. /s

Mandatory conscription to the military (and the corruption there too) ?

There are plenty of countries that do that after they lose around 20 percent of their population in a brutal war. Like Vietnam, for example.

Iron curtain ?

You mean the one the west put up? https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/26/stalin-not-want-iron-curtain-descend/

Free speech and freedom of expression ?

Western countries have more sophisticated censorship and media apparatuses I give you that. Speak out in a real way though and look what happens to people like Fred Hampton.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Have you considered there are other reasons besides nostalgia? Like the massive life expectancy and qol collapse under capitalism?

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/32fb41e8-a5d4-41c0-9001-b3103bb43898.png

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In a transitioning economy where currency hasn't been eliminated and people we consider disabled can get good employment that suits their capabilities it makes sense.

Okay but Stalin mostly walked the walk. 7 good fingers 3 rotten fingers and all that.