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scar the 1 posted...

I don't really burn for tankies, but it's interesting to learn about some of the social programs/policies that the Soviet Union implemented. They were very early in legalizing abortion, for example (although Stalin rolled that back), and from what I can tell they also had good literacy programs, as well as things like guaranteed paid leave and other things that still aren't implemented in America.

...that said it's perfectly possible to still criticize the USSR and Stalin's crimes. I just think it's interesting as a layperson, learning a more complete picture about what happened. We tend to get marinated in the view that the Soviet Union was bad in every imaginable way, but in fact there were some interesting things there as well, that sort of gets left out.

Yes, this is what people are talking about when we use the term critical support. The frustration comes when, for example, someone like Bernie acknowledges how great Cubas literacy programs were and then people conflate that with him saying nothing bad has ever happened in Cuba.

I dont think you do this but a lot of people who go around accusing others of being tankies only do so because the alleged tankies dont treat fallen socialist states like the USSR as the complete cartoon villains whose only goal was to bring misery to the world that Red Scare propaganda tried to paint them as.

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