Charles Brown wrote:
>Highlights of SU world historic advances:
>Declaring peace in WWI , the worst war in history to that time;
>expropriating the exploiting classes of society for the first time in human
>history (throwing Czarism on the scrap heap of history); industrializing the
>country more rapidly than capitalism had other countries, privileging the
>working class economically ( see Chris Doss' recent post); a constitutional
>provision for equal rights for women ( the U.S. still doesn't have that),
>making divorce readily available to women, women's right to a job with
>universal childcare ; ENDING UNEMPLOYMENT ! Something very important to
>working class people; universal free health care (!), free higher education;
>defeating Nazism :95% of Nazi casualties were inflicted by the Red Army,
>basically saving the world from the Third Reich. Many other accomplisments,
>in science and other areas, including boosting tremendously, the scholarly
>and intellectual prominence of Marxism in world culture.
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Let's add one more: the enfranchisement of the Jews.
Joanna
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