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@istewart1919 For a similar, and valuable take on the USSR in the 1970s, it's worth reading Audre Lorde's "Notes from a Trip to Russia," summarized here: yolacrary.blogspot.com/2012/03/we-are-all-more-blind-to-what-we-have.htmlOn twitter.com
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@istewart1919 Lorde: "We left him … standing in the middle of the square with his mouth open and his hand under his chin staring after me, as in utter amazement that human beings could die from lack of medical care."Permalink On twitter.com
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@istewart1919 Lorde: "I have no reason to believe Russia is a free society. I have no reason to believe Russia is a classless society. Russia does not even appear to be a strictly egalitarian society. But bread does cost a few kopecs a loaf and everybody I saw seemed to have enough of it…Permalink On twitter.com
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@istewart1919 "… Of course, I did not see Siberia, nor a prison camp, nor a mental hospital. But that fact, in a world where most people—certainly most Black people—are on a breadconcern level, seems to me to be quite a lot."Permalink On twitter.com
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@istewart1919 Now should you visit the USSR in the 1970s or 1980s without noting the prison camps? No. But would would be on the list for visitors to the US to not overlook: the people dying from lack of medical care, the guns, the abundant prisons… None of us would make the grade.Permalink On twitter.com