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This was not equality of misery. It was equality of opportunities. My father was a factory worker, my mother was from peasants family. They were able to put me
by ommunist 10y ago
This was not equality of misery. It was equality of opportunities. My father was a factory worker, my mother was from peasants family. They were able to put me into high class secondary school and I was in position to select any university after graduating from it.
In the modern UK this is financially impossible for a family like that to give that kind of education to their kids.
Besides, there was no such thing as 'Ukrainian genocide', its a part of modern US political discourse to maintain the US political agenda in the Eastern Europe, hence the research you are referring to.
- notahacker 10y agoIn 1989 about 8% of the population of the Soviet Union had been through tertiary education. The modern UK sends nearly half its young adults to university, including an awful lot of people whose parents are manual labourers (we don't, admittedly, have any peasants)