Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Hollywood vs Fans - Everybody Loses" video.
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In all fairness, the Soviet Union wasn't as repressive towards culture as reputation have it cracked up to be.
If you ask people who lived in it, they'll tell you that they were very familiar with culture and fiction from the "capitalist west".
Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Spaghetti Westerns. All of them were read and viewed by a Soviet audience, with the blessings of the state.
The reason for this is that despite the state socialism, the soviets mostly respected culture and saw exposure to it as an integral part to education, and they did implement statewide education quite successfully, turning a country of mostly illiterate farmers into a country where almost everyone was literate, and higher education produced engineers and scientists that made them win the space race.
Their censors looked more to repressing works that directly and overtly contradicted the state or tried to spread dissent. So outright political texts would end up being censored, while storytelling and fiction were mostly left alone.
There are more prominent examples of cultural censorship in other socialist states though, like China, Cambodia and North Korea. Their officials were among the first to think that stories from the capitalist west might inspire sedition among the population, which is why they censored more harshly.
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@batesvillbilly368 I have no ignorance. I know about the persecutions. They were just completely irrelevant to my statements.
You see, christianity fell under the kind of written works that contradicted the state. Which I spoke about in my original post.
Had you just asked first, you wouldn't have had to embarass yourself like this. But here we are, you made baseless assumptions about my statements, invented strawmen to attack me with, and ended up looking like a dumbass because of it. 😀
Religion is also not "part of" secular culture. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, whatever. It has no bearing on works of fiction unless the authors purposefully draw inspiration from them in their works, which makes the fiction theistic by definition.
Also, yet again you bring up completely irrelevant strawmen to "prove a point"
I never once argued that communism works. Yet you bring it up like an idiotic non sequiteur to "counter" something I never said.
Unlike you, I give credit where credit is due. The USSR did some terrible things, but also did some beneficial things... Like turning a country of ignorant and uneducated farmers into an industrial society of literate people.
It doesn't excuse the persecutions, but the persecutions also do not detract from the achievements.
But you, being a non-intellectual and political demagogue can't do that. You have to smear ideologies you disagree with by default.
Even if the USSR had invented the cure for cancer, you would still not be able to admit that achievement of theirs. Because you are disingenous.
A proper bad faith actor. Which also explains why you resorted to strawmanning to begin with.
I mentioned a truth about the USSR, which didn't immediately paint the USSR in an negative light. And that was like waving a red sheet in front of you, making you go berserk. Becase you're probably one of the unquestioning idiot worshippers of the free market fairy. So nobody should have the nerve to mention any achievements of the USSR on your watch, isn't that right, little libertarian?
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