[lbo-talk] Black in the USSR ( or Russia ?)

[Chris Doss]

CB:  But honestly , Michael, what strikes me when
you say that is that you seem to think that most of the people on this list
are deluded by pro-Soviet propaganda that you need to disabuse them of.
That just doesn't seem accurate.  There is plenty of awareness here of the
crimes and failures of the Soviet Union, Stalinists, Leninists , Maoists,
etc. We are not some exception to the general American consciousness that is
plenty packed with anti-Soviet and anti-communist information. Really what
is needed here for balance and historical accuracy is that extremely rare
thing in America: appreciation of what the Soviets and Communists did right.
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I agree with you completely. There seems to be some kind of unofficial ban 
in the US, even on the left, that the USSR ever did anything right, no 
matter what. They would try to claim the USSR's victory over WWII as an evil 
if they could. It's like they think the USSR was Mordor or something, rather 
than an incredibly complicated, historically unique society that lasted for 
generations.

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