re: Interesting reddit thread on concentration camps from the Red Army perspective

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My wife grew up in the Soviet Union during the 1980's.
When I hear people from other countries try to tell her how horrible it must have been....
She only really keeps it to herself because people refuse to believe that she could have loved it.
That they had a diverse population which is almost never portrayed in western history books.
They are almost always portrayed a totally white society which is also not true.
They didn't have as much selection as we do now under capitalism, but...in the United States up until the 1980's Americans didn't have that much selection of different products/services either.
Capitalism just quietly kills people through poverty & other societal ills. It's like a constant almost dead silent genocide.
Here in 2017 we are having massive rallies for womens rights. In the 1960's women in the Soviet Union were already considered equals.
It wasn't even a question. Statues across the Soviet Union showed women & men working hand in hand to build a better society.
Now in Russia under capitalism, women have been treated beneath men since at least the 1990's.
I will never forget when my wife didn't understand how someone could be sleeping on the street & homeless. She didn't understand "Why they would choose to do that voluntarily".
She didn't realize that we don't have much of a system to prevent that from happening to our own citizens.

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Here in 2017 we are having massive rallies for womens rights.

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