Having a family member that defected to the ussr in the 80s and her stories of actually living under communism humanised the USSR to me a lot, I never really saw them as evil when I was a liberal just as a place that existed and then stopped existing. Idk, I'm too tired for a big write up rn but I think the humanisation of the ussr was what meant that I never saw them as this great evil force like many other newly "radicalised" westerners do (and, to a lesser degree did at the time)
Also seeing Corbyn hounded out of power and being coupled by the liberal elements of his own party that would rather throw away the election than risk winning with a "far left" leader
Having a family member that defected to the ussr in the 80s and her stories of actually living under communism humanised the USSR to me a lot, I never really saw them as evil when I was a liberal just as a place that existed and then stopped existing. Idk, I'm too tired for a big write up rn but I think the humanisation of the ussr was what meant that I never saw them as this great evil force like many other newly "radicalised" westerners do (and, to a lesser degree did at the time)
Also seeing Corbyn hounded out of power and being coupled by the liberal elements of his own party that would rather throw away the election than risk winning with a "far left" leader
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