Angel Martinez’s Reviews > Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism > Status Update

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good" (pg 116). From the section titled "We Didn't Realize What We Had"

The state of professionally trained women (scientists, engineers, etc) post-USSR and during the reintroduction of capitalism: forced into prostitution to make ends meet. trafficking of children too. MP cites a journalist who visited the reception rooms of Estonia's Parliament in 1996 and found stacks of child pornography (115) "free love" is what they called it. A life without dignity is what capitalism brings you

The Spinner has decided I finally start reading this book on 12:50am 6/12/26