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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 26

    Austen Allred Retweeted Cathy Young

    I’m pretty sure 99% of my political leanings come from having lived in the Soviet Bloc. The rose-colored glasses Americans have about the USSR are pretty incredible.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1022621865074978816 …

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    Cathy YoungVerified account @CathyYoung63
    True story: circa 1985, when my mom taught piano at Rutgers (about 5 years after emigrating), a colleague at lunch gave her the "But free health care!" line re the USSR. When she described the conditions in Soviet hospitals, he accused her of channeling American propaganda. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1022582467834912768 …
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      2. Ildar‏ @muslukhov Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Where did you live?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 26
        Replying to @muslukhov

        Eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Kharkov, Makeevka, Gorlovka

        2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred @muslukhov

        Not sure if I’m transliterating those names correctly, only know how they’re spelled in Russian

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Paul Schrum‏ @philologon Jul 27
        Replying to @AustenAllred @muslukhov

        No American would ever know the difference.

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. E. Harding (hail Bolsonaro!)‏ @Enopoletus Jul 27
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        You lived there *after* the post-Communist collapse. Ukrainians who actually experienced it also tend to have rose-colored glasses about the USSR: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx …http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/12/05/confidence-in-democracy-and-capitalism-wanes-in-former-soviet-union/ …

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 27
        Replying to @Enopoletus

        Calling Ukraine capitalist today is laughable. It went from bad to also bad. Sign me up for “neither”

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      4. Joe III‏ @Joe128Camel Jul 27
        Replying to @AustenAllred @Enopoletus

        No, things got much, much worse after the Soviet collapse. They have started improving in some places.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 27
        Replying to @Joe128Camel @Enopoletus

        “It went from bad to also bad” that’s what I said

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      6. Joe III‏ @Joe128Camel Jul 27
        Replying to @AustenAllred @Enopoletus

        There was no point in the post-war eastern bloc which things were as bad as they were in the 90s.

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      7. End of conversation
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      2. Boulis‏ @plike_ Jul 27
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I assure you that growing up in the Midwest, I heard zero rose-colored stories about the USSR, except from the Beatles, who were roundly mocked.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 27
        Replying to @plike_

        Like the good lord in the Midwest intended

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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      2.  ⚡️Andrew So ⚡️‏ @AndrewDixonSo Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I'm surprised you encounter Americans that feel that way. I've heard zero positive stories about life in USSR

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 26
        Replying to @AndrewDixonSo

        Allll the time

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. charlesVillard.js‏ @cdvillard Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        As an American who feels there's benefit to a minimal universal healthcare system, I'd like to know what your experiences were. I understand that Communism was very much about everyone having the same unless you were a cut above "everyone" but that's it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 26
        Replying to @cdvillard

        Just talking healthcare: imagine a hospital covered in cats running all over the place and filthy, friend was sick. Diagnosis? “Drank cold water.” Went to a hospital in Germany to check, was appendicitis.

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      2. Count. Every. Vote.‏ @rgigger Jul 26
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I have never talked to an American about the USSR that didn’t view it as an absolute horror? What % of Americans do you think have a positive view of Soviet Russia?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 26
        Replying to @rgigger @AustenAllred

        conversely, essentially 100% of Americans I have talked to equate *any* form of democratically decided social spending with authoritarian Bolshevism, Leninism, and Stalinism.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        But welfare for corporations? Who radically violate market principles, take tax-payer subsidized risks, almost destroy the economy, and know they have a safety net from the nanny state? That’s okay. That’s not an abuse of power, at all.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        meanwhile literally every other industrialized country in the world right now has better health care than the US, better outcomes and quality of life. But you can NEVER use these examples of successful “socialism,” because THE SOVIET UNION ONCE HAPPENED.

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      6. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        If you have a big problem with Bolshevism, with Leninism, with Stalinism, with Maoism.... you (should) first and foremost have a problem with authoritarianism. Socialism is not the opposite of democracy, authoritarianism is.

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      7. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        Those autocracies sold the label of “socialism” to their populations through massive propaganda to pose as vanguards of the people (whom they were destroying and enslaving) and consolidate power. They had about as much concern for actual socialism as Milton Friedman did.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        an analogy: take something almost no one would object to, like “ice cream Tuesday” at work, where every tues everyone gets free ice cream. Now what if at your company you get bad ice cream, plus you get beaten half to death, every Tuesday.

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      9. Scott Nibley‏ @noamisright Jul 27
        Replying to @noamisright @rgigger @AustenAllred

        You don’t actually object to ice cream, or ice cream Tuesday; you object to being beaten half to death. You call it being beaten, but they call it “ice cream Tuesday.” And so.... you make sure no one ever eats ice cream, but you ignore all the beatings.

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