• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      So you agree with them, that life under socialism was materially better than life under capitalism 👍

      Neither we nor the Soviets/ex-Soviets ever claimed that socialism or communism was or ever will be utopian, only that they are better than capitalism.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      Regarding the stats on the rise of communist sympathies among younger people, again, this is from a right-wing institute that specifically does not want people to identify as communist. It’s McCarthyism.

      As for calling the Soviet Union a “utopia,” I never did. I simply stated facts about the Soviet Union. For example, life expectancy:

      All of what I said can be rather easily verified. Is it a “complete” picture? No. I explained why I support the Soviet Union, and those were some of the many reasons.