Also don’t forget where said “democratically” voted leader blatantly ignores the law and uses his power against the people, even those who actually voted for him.
Literacy rose from 20% to 80% between the revolution and WW2. Textbooks were printed in 105 languages. Whatever healthcare could be afforded by the rapidly developing Soviets was free as was education, and land had been redistributed from landlords to peasants. Income inequality plummeted to the lowest values ever seen in the region ever before or after, access to housing and to a job was guaranteed by law.
This isn’t the work of “a few good dictators”, it’s the work of democracy. If there had been a powerful and wealthy ruling class in the USSR, as is the case in the USA, none of those benefits would have materialized. Universal healthcare and education don’t just spawn out of nowhere, believe it or not.
“Democracy”
All things are relative, and the standards were… low around WW2.
Consider it the ignominious position of ‘victory by default’
Doesn’t make it a democracy
Yeah, you pick your dictator, very democratic
Also don’t forget where said “democratically” voted leader blatantly ignores the law and uses his power against the people, even those who actually voted for him.
“Communist”
Literacy rose from 20% to 80% between the revolution and WW2. Textbooks were printed in 105 languages. Whatever healthcare could be afforded by the rapidly developing Soviets was free as was education, and land had been redistributed from landlords to peasants. Income inequality plummeted to the lowest values ever seen in the region ever before or after, access to housing and to a job was guaranteed by law.
This isn’t the work of “a few good dictators”, it’s the work of democracy. If there had been a powerful and wealthy ruling class in the USSR, as is the case in the USA, none of those benefits would have materialized. Universal healthcare and education don’t just spawn out of nowhere, believe it or not.