Nevermind that the Soviet Union materially supported a majority, if not all, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles waged by POC across the globe. The Soviets were present to be called upon to support any echo of the Haitian Slave Rebellion or peasant revolt across the global south, from Vietnam, to Indonesia, to the Philippines, Cuba, Indonesia, Chile, Bolivia, Guatamala, Grenada, and Burkina Faso.
Nevermind that the Soviet Union immediately granted voting rights to women and for its entire existence had women take up 50% of STEM graduates and maintained for all 70 years (1917-1991) a massively higher ratio of women in government (and STEM jobs) than the United States today. That and paid maternity+paternity leave, child benefit programs, and national daycare facilities for countries in the Union.
And nevermind that the GDR that was the first country that offered gender affirmation surgeries (and even did so for free), or the fact that all Soviet nations have maintained powerful caucuses of LGBT activists in their governments.
Or that the women of the Soviet Union wielded so much bodily autonomy that the Union literally used free, safe medical abortion as a preferred birth control method from the 1920s, all the way to 1991, just because Soviet women didn't like the side effects and daily chore of taking of the birth control pill.
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For the First Time as I stepped on Soviet soil, I felt myself a full human being. A full human being. So it's unthinkable to me today, that colored people's from any part of the world, would ever join a war, or attacks. upon the Soviet Union
-- Paul Robeson, 1945.
Bonus of Paul Robeson performing the at the Soviet Victory Day parade in 1945.
Nevermind that the Soviet Union materially supported a majority, if not all, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles waged by POC across the globe. The Soviets were present to be called upon to support any echo of the Haitian Slave Rebellion or peasant revolt across the global south, from Vietnam, to Indonesia, to the Philippines, Cuba, Indonesia, Chile, Bolivia, Guatamala, Grenada, and Burkina Faso.
Nevermind that the Soviet Union immediately granted voting rights to women and for its entire existence had women take up 50% of STEM graduates and maintained for all 70 years (1917-1991) a massively higher ratio of women in government (and STEM jobs) than the United States today. That and paid maternity+paternity leave, child benefit programs, and national daycare facilities for countries in the Union.
And nevermind that the GDR that was the first country that offered gender affirmation surgeries (and even did so for free), or the fact that all Soviet nations have maintained powerful caucuses of LGBT activists in their governments.
Or that the women of the Soviet Union wielded so much bodily autonomy that the Union literally used free, safe medical abortion as a preferred birth control method from the 1920s, all the way to 1991, just because Soviet women didn't like the side effects and daily chore of taking of the birth control pill.
That’s great and all, but who’s driving the tanks? That’s the most important part about gubber mints.
Usually some asian-looking Slavs :kitty-cri-screm:
Source?