Apologies, not a radfem post, but as a Ukrainian who has generations of relatives who lived under the USSR regime, I need to comment on this.
This is less about the communist ideology itself (I'm not informed enough on it to give an in depth opinion, though I'd say I'm not pro capitalist), and more about the USSR.
People seem to forget that the USSR was a totalitarian regime where people were oppressed and sent to gulags or brutal work camps if they showed any opposition towards the regime or were accused of being kulaks or bourgeois. They also forget the Golodomor, a genocide on the Ukrainian people by the USSR government, which is considered to be Russian. They forget that up until not so long ago, university students were sent to work on fields because the kolkhoz weren't efficient enough. The Red Army was notoriously destructive and terrifying, pillaging so much in their wake.
How are the people not exploited in a totalitarian regime for the benefit of the people at the top of the pyramid?
I'm bringing this up because I find it alarming when people seem to glorify the USSR regime and ignore the tremendous trauma and pain it has inflicted upon families like mine, especially now that Russia is invading us (not that that's specifically tied to communism, but the USSR very much did have a logic of expansion, I mean they literally made a pact with Nazi Germany to invade Poland).
Please do not glorify the USSR "political system" in the name of communism. It was oppressive, totalitarian, and quite literally genocidal. If you want to show the good of communism, using the USSR shows exactly the opposite. Frankly, it sickens me.
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