What genocides? There’s the Holodomor, but historians don’t agree that was a purposeful targeted famine, so much as failed policy and bad luck. That’s like saying the Great Dust Bowl was a famine against the Midwest. They were a new society trying a new form of government and production for the first time after multiple wars. Famine happened all the time during the tsar’s rule, and stopped happening after the World Wars, when the USSR figured it out. Even the CIA at a certain point said that they ate as much in the USSR as they did in the US, just healthier lol.
And sheer grey hopelessness of life? From the society that went to space first, that revitalized numerous liberation movements around the world like Cuba and Vietnam, that helped women gain equality in the fields of science and technology? They weren’t perfect and did plenty of things wrong but weren’t anything close to the Nazis like you seem to be implying.
In fact, most people would have preferred the USSR didn’t dissolve in the countries it was in. And speaking of poverty, the dissolution of the USSR was way worse for those countries.
What genocides? There’s the Holodomor, but historians don’t agree that was a purposeful targeted famine, so much as failed policy and bad luck. That’s like saying the Great Dust Bowl was a famine against the Midwest. They were a new society trying a new form of government and production for the first time after multiple wars. Famine happened all the time during the tsar’s rule, and stopped happening after the World Wars, when the USSR figured it out. Even the CIA at a certain point said that they ate as much in the USSR as they did in the US, just healthier lol.
And sheer grey hopelessness of life? From the society that went to space first, that revitalized numerous liberation movements around the world like Cuba and Vietnam, that helped women gain equality in the fields of science and technology? They weren’t perfect and did plenty of things wrong but weren’t anything close to the Nazis like you seem to be implying.
In fact, most people would have preferred the USSR didn’t dissolve in the countries it was in. And speaking of poverty, the dissolution of the USSR was way worse for those countries.