Ingrained in the Soviet worldview was the powerful idea of overcoming suffering. The idea was that one suffered for a reason, for a greater cause, whether it was building an unrivaled communist state, achieving social justice, or winning World War II.
Is that what our socialists/communists here are thinking?
“Ingrained in the Soviet worldview was the powerful idea of overcoming suffering.”
That worldview did not start with the Soviets. It has been an ingrained trait of the Russian people for millennia. They are the world’s most avowed fatalists, for good or ill.