• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      The USSR came with many huge benefits, like doubling of life expectancy, free and high quality education, healthcare, and childcare, an expansion in women’s rights and democratization of the economy, and more. It also had numerous problems, but that doesn’t change that it was the first Socialist state, and Socialism is the way to go, eventually Communism.

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          The Black Book of Communism was debunked long ago, from including Nazis killed during World War II as “victims of Communism” to literally making up numbers to get to 100 million dead to being outright disproven once the Soviet Archives were opened up.

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              And yet consensus from historians backs what I said, the Black Book of Communism was even backed off by some of its contributors. The opening of the Soviet Archives confirmed a lot of the numbers in The Black Book of Communism were made up, and new historical consensus has largely been formed off of the Soviet Archives.