1.Twitter is a poor medium, so I’ll summarize some random points on USSR, WWII, and Victory Day. @apurposefulwife
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3.There were no "Bolshevik” policies after 1928 rise of Stalin: this was a socially-/culturally-conservative + economically socialist state.
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"Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty" - Josef Stalin in 1931
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3b.This socially-conservative state prioritized large families, classic art, etc, but w/o the property rights.(Brandenberger, Hoffmann, etc)
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4a. No serious historian subscribes to the totalitarian model of meek oppressed/powerful oppressors without top/down/bottom/up interaction.
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4b. Many common people benefitted from early USSR’s policies: from massive literacy increase to decrease in childhood mortality/diseases.
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4c.There were plenty of homegrown, willing, and able Communists in *every* Soviet republic.
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5a.Political-prisoner deaths in the USSR are nowhere near "dozens of millions" (see Getty/Naumov’s Road to Terror).
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5b.If you count non-political deaths from “harsh conditions,” then you can make the same argument about poverty + disease under capitalism.
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5c. And I'm not even including the ~10-30 million deaths abroad from "capitalist" Washington's wars.
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6a. At the beginning of WWII, *some* towns in Ukrainian SSR indeed welcomed the Germans. This attitude quickly changed. (See. K. Berkhoff)
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