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one of the great baffling issues of the later soviet union was how little people appreciated things like safety nets, housing, security in old age. And how much people would really like the new phone

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The section in Blackshirts and Reds where he details what it was like for people in former Soviet countries when they realized they had been duped by capitalist propaganda and lost all those things they took for granted was really fucking sad

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well the fall of the soviet union was really sad

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Hot take: I agree

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i mean you had all of capitalism pumping out propaganda for decades.

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