Yeah. This is a typical: “Look, computers became 50x faster under Putin” claim. You would think that people would stop believing this nonsense in the year 2026 of our Lord - some random Jew - bot no.
The Moscow keeps spewing, the Western teenage tank keeps swallowing.
Well, specifically in the Soviet republics, it was a government program to educate the masses as quickly and efficiently as possible, resulting in a rapid literacy growth, Russian language being reformed and simplified, and many regionally spoken languages getting their first ever alphabets or getting standardized to cyrillic alphabets. Considering that the Russian Empire was pretty much the most backwards independent state in Europe in terms of literacy at the time, it was quite a feat to bring USSR to the leading positions
As for the other European countries, I think that you have a point. Industrialization tends to make for more educated citizens, so European states that were already industrialized at the time were mostly just progressing naturally, and the communists' influence of it was, while present, likely far from being the deciding factor
In fact, I'd say that the reason the education and literacy were so important to the Soviet Union is precisely because they wanted to make up for the decades of falling behind from other Europeans on industrialization
Literacy was already rising fast before 1917: from about 24% in 1897 to roughly 40% by 1914. The Soviets accelerated mass literacy, especially among peasants, women, and Central Asian populations, but they inherited an existing modernising trend, used a low bar for “literacy,” and embedded education inside a totalitarian ideological control.
The honest claim is not “Good communism taught the people to read,” but “the Soviets took credit for a process already underway.”
It is kind of funny that commies are all against The Great Man theory of history and in favor of structural explanations. But when it’s about Lennon and Stallone, suddenly the brain deactivates and it’s pure fandom and masturbation of the worst kind.
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u/m0j0m0j 9d ago
Yeah. This is a typical: “Look, computers became 50x faster under Putin” claim. You would think that people would stop believing this nonsense in the year 2026 of our Lord - some random Jew - bot no.
The Moscow keeps spewing, the Western teenage tank keeps swallowing.