• ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Life expectancy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-021-00169-w

    Oh yea, like if you are religious you are a threat to the state and therefore you are unfit for basically any leading role, or your property might be confiscated and you might be sent of to Siberia ?

    Anti religion is needlessly antagonistic but also wasn't enforced like you are suggesting: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm

    Lines for food namely bread and if the stars aligned meat.

    According to the anti-communist cia their nutrition was in many ways better

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwijl7ChsciBAxXug4kEHS2ZCCAQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw06QRMVGCOurHDUtg96SRq0

    Also breadlines are common under capitalism.

    Big amount of corruption ?

    Yes, theft from the public has definitely decreased since the the collapse. /s

    Mandatory conscription to the military (and the corruption there too) ?

    There are plenty of countries that do that after they lose around 20 percent of their population in a brutal war. Like Vietnam, for example.

    Iron curtain ?

    You mean the one the west put up? https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/26/stalin-not-want-iron-curtain-descend/

    Free speech and freedom of expression ?

    Western countries have more sophisticated censorship and media apparatuses I give you that. Speak out in a real way though and look what happens to people like Fred Hampton.