Quibbling over the definition of “authoritarian” is kind of a red flag for a country that invented the term “gulag”

Defending the Soviet Union in this way has the same energy as someone claiming that the Nazis actually did some really good scientific research

You can organize and read theory without supporting Stalinism et al. A boot by any other name still tastes like leather

Why don’t you take all this misplaced energy defending an authoritarian state with really excellent propaganda and use it to support a group actually doing some good like the Zapatistas or something

Do you have charts that include all the soviets combined or just Russia? Russia practiced its own version of imperialism over Siberia, Ukraine, etc so showing charts titled “Russia” is telling. Would love to see life expectancy in Ukraine following the holodomor

Things getting worse doesn’t mean they were good before lol

Is per capita appropriate in this context?

Or because the US, the richest country ever to exist, is squandering its wealth on weapons and kleptocracy instead of improving its citizens’ lives even a tiny amount?