Posted on 08/14/2017 2:15:49 PM PDT by richardb72
In Sunday’s New York Times, Kristen Ghodsee paints a glowing picture of women’s lives in the former Soviet Union. From full voting rights in 1917, liberalized divorce laws, high labor force participation – and yes, reportedly better sex – life was supposedly much better for women. Ghodsee writes, “Although the Communists never fully reformed domestic patriarchy, Communist women enjoyed a degree of self-sufficiency that few Western women could have imagined.”
Of course, full voting rights don’t count for very much when there is always only one candidate allowed on the ballot.
But there is a more fundamental problem with Ghodsee’s argument. Totalitarian governments have gone to great lengths to indoctrinate children, and the biggest obstacles to that goal were parents. The way to overcome this “problem” was to take women away from their children by encouraging or forcing them into the work force. Making divorce easy also weakened the institution of the family.
As former Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Time David Shipler discovered, during the 1920s and 1950s, the Soviet Union even experimented with raising children in ‘‘communal children’s houses, dining halls, and other institutions that would decrease the importance of the individual household.’’ During the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Soviet government forcibly took tens of thousands of three- and four-year-old Afghanis to the USSR so that they would be raised away from their families. The hope was to later return them to Afghanistan, where they might form the core of a loyal government administration.
The former Soviet Union viewed children as “the property of the state” and they were actively encouraged “to criticize, expose, and reform parents possessing insufficient revolutionary ideals.”
But there are more subtle ways of achieving this without forcibly removing children from their homes. . . .
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Just the Wymyn....
Looser women?
More sex? Sure. What else was there to do? Pollution everywhere, little disposable income to spend in nearly empty state stores, travel restricted, neighbors watching you, TV and movies heavily censored . . .
The TV show COPS suggests otherwise.
The same Newspaper that gave us Walter Duranty.
With themselves or with farm animals?
Because nobody has ever been screwed as hard and complete as those who have been screwed by the Government.
It has nothing to do with political ideology. It has EVERYTHING to do with being married more than one year...
I guess according to the NYT, Venezuelans must be having the greatest sex on the planet while starving and suffering from a shortage of toilet paper. Y’know, when that retarded article claiming that at least the sex was great in those repressive Commie hellholes first rolled out, my very first thought was of the old joke about skewed journalistic priorities: “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
Communist of the Soviet Union also had more abortions.
Why would any couple (or unmarried and pregnant woman) want to bring a child in to the depressing world of a communist nation.
I believe an old saying in the USSR was to live is to suffer.
No doubt true in a communist country
Communist of the USSR also suffered a higher incidence of Alcoholism.
Communist of the USSR also suffered a higher incidence of suicide.
This is all from memory. I am sure that with a little research I could find more.
But why bother? We all know that communist countries are H-holes.
Oh yes, they had great sex all night long and during the day they waited in long lines for basic commodities like wine and chocolates. And candles. A nice romantic dinner and they are on their way. Maybe the latest issue of Cosmopolitanya magazine with a hundred tips to drive comrades wild. I wonder where they got their lingerie and soap and perfume. Also very plentiful because they weren’t always waiting in line for food. Did they take showers or did the Soviet men like the animal smells? Maybe the pheromones were a contributing factor. I’m sure hairbrushes and nail polish were plentiful even though bread and toilet paper were problematic at times.
Then why is it that lots of Russian women want to marry American men, but few American wymyn want to marry Russian men?
It’s beginning to look like America is going to be forced into Marxism. Voting won’t matter.
Of course the commies gave women the right to vote. Nobody’s votes counted anyway.
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