I will not defend Stalin and I will not defend the CCP. Just because capitalism isn’t good doesn’t mean that we have to glaze imperialist states. Ask Ukraine and the Baltic states how good they had it during the USSR; my point being that pro-USSR sentiments are largely just pro-Russian propaganda.
China is doing some good nowadays, but it still definitely has corruption. There are still billionaires, polluted air, capitalistic factories—which have terrible working conditions and sell cheaply made carcinogenic products, they’re building AI data centres—some of which will boil the water temperature, bans citizens from accessing a lot of websites, etc.
I even decided to join a solidarity website and it mentioned f**cking Kim Jong-Un as a leftist figure ffs 💀. Literally, ANY North Korean defector will tell you how bad the North Korean regime is. The site had no mention of actual decent examples like Peter Kropotkin, Nelson Mandela, Thomas Sankara, Martin Luther King Jr, or even Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Edit: did not know that Proudhon was a bigot. My bad; thanks immensely for telling me.
Ukrainians have historically had positive opinions of the USSR, especially the older generations that actually lived through it. It’s only recently, due to American propaganda, that the younger generations have negative views of the USSR.
That is very much not true. The older generations that lived through it had no idea you can live better than on the edge of poverty.
Except that there’s published surveys with the data.
I don’t see you providing any source other then pulling it out of your ass.
Yeah, I was looking for it. PEW did research back in the day but I’m having difficulty finding it at the moment.
I’d like to see those surveys with the data. Got a link?
You go back to around 1938 and you won’t find any criticism of the USSR coming from those territories.