After reading Blackshirts and Reds I am convinced that everything the West said about the USSR was pure projection (hexbear.net)

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What a depressing book. The chapters about life in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR were utterly heartbreaking. Even the little things like how free Summer camp for kids was abolished was just ... fuck dude. I don't even know what to say

This book actually made me weep. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to read Parenti. deeper-sadness

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[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blackshirts and Reds is a MANDATORY reading for any leftist in the core. US nerds especially I don't care if you're a maoist or anarchist or a secret third thing you literally can not form a complete understanding of leftist geopolitics without the information in it.