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Originally Posted by eyeswideopen  There was a propoganda war between the US and USSR over who was least racist.
There were definitely more lynchings in the US, but I've also read of black people in the USSR experiencing racism. At this stage, we should be at least thinking about doing better than either.
The worker's states weren't a paradise and a lot of people stayed very poor. They were labouring against the disadvantages of their history and also against Cold War pressures and the general economic and political dominance of capitalism globally. They did make enormous gains in the 1950s and 60s particularly.
Rather than slug it out with one extreme false image being posited against another, it would imo be more useful to make an appraisal of the workers' states based on some real data. | I assure you, I am more aware of the failings of the USSR then the likes of George "better dead than red" Lee, or his fellow Corporatist cheerleaders on p.ie
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