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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, Stalin's Russia was a paradise for all with zero issues, obviously.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It was certainly a dramatic improvement on the Tsarist regime, but it wasn't a mythical worker paradise either. Blackshirts and Reds is a good book on the subject.