coelogyne_pandurata t1_ixtci7f wrote on November 26, 2022 at 4:37 AM

Reply to comment by ManyOpinionsNotSane in German foreign minister welcomes efforts to declare Holodomor genocide - spokesperson by hieronymusanonymous

>So why did it have to work on the first try?

The Soviet system brought a backwards agrarian society of 9% literacy to putting Russians in space (before Americans) in 30 years. For all of the mistakes, there was so much success. Absolutely something to learn and adopt there..

ManyOpinionsNotSane t1_ixthq7i wrote on November 26, 2022 at 5:33 AM

This is also true. History is so much more complex than most people realize. No black and white anywhere.