• keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s a not uncommon belief here that the USSR was chauvinist, even amongst trans accepting feminists. They are wrong, but it’s literally just “USSR bad” levels of knowledge and analysis

    • pillow [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I think it’s fair to say that there were unacceptable failures. soviet pro-natalist policy for example was ultra cringe for a long time and they ought have known better. that being said, though, what are we comparing it to? the ussr must have seemed like a city on a hill to e.g. english women in the 1920s. libs are always harping on about soviet Ls while nervously nudging their own contemporaneous skeletons behind the sofa