• Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml
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      23 hours ago

      Europe will never forgive the USSR for things like the 8-hour working day, women’s rights, fighting against colonialism (including Germany and Japan, but also including many other places, like Vietnam, Mozambique, Korea, etc.), massively improving life expectancy and education, guaranteed housing, and otherwise improving workers’ living conditions.

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        17 hours ago

        We didn’t rely on the USSR for the 8-hour working day or women’s rights

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          The presence of the USSR absolutely caused capitalist countries to make concessions on those things.

          Further, who were the people in those respective countries who fight for those things? By and large, Communists