damn the mental gymnastics some people go through to avoid saying anything remotely considered adjacent to a good thing about the USSR
the USSR could have put up a light post on a dark corner of a street and we’d still be getting told to this day how the light post was actually used to shine light on anti-state actors who were then tortured for a bajillion years in the gulags
damn the mental gymnastics some people go through to avoid saying anything remotely considered adjacent to a good thing about the USSR
the USSR could have put up a light post on a dark corner of a street and we’d still be getting told to this day how the light post was actually used to shine light on anti-state actors who were then tortured for a bajillion years in the gulags
They’d also talk about how the post was installed improperly because everyone in the USSR was drunk and incompetent.
The Soviet Union only put in public lighting so that the people would lose the freedom to fumble around blindly in the dark!