The USSR, too, eventually adopted economic liberalization, culminating in Perestroika, accompanied with Glasnost and, for instance, feminism autonomous of the party-state
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Seventy years later. The social liberalization* was a product of deliberate Soviet policy, which was not economically liberal to say the least.
* Liberalization in terms of acceptance of women and {nonreligious} Jews. In terms of acceptance of homosexuals and religious people, not to mention people who didn't agree with the government, quite the opposite. Soviet treatment of homosexuality was probably worse than during the last tsar -- but don't ask me for a cite on that, because I don't have one.
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