Seamus Milne: "For all its brutalities and failures, communism in the Soviet
Union, eastern Europe and elsewhere delivered rapid industrialisation, mass
education, job security and huge advances in social and gender equality. It
encompassed genuine idealism and commitment, captured even by critical films
and books of the post-Stalin era such as Wajda's Man of Marble and Rybakov's
Children of the Arbat. Its existence helped to drive up welfare standards in
the west, boosted the anticolonial movement and provided a powerful
counterweight to western global domination."
Hee! (He's the son of a former Director General of the BBC)
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