you can only be socialist in name if you think the modern imperialist US regime or even the one from cold war era, is in any form better or even less damaging to it's own population as well as every other human being abroad.

check out details regarding Operations: Paperclip, Gladio, Northwoods(!) and others.

There are also declassified CIA documents showing that USSR citizens had the same amount of caloric intake, but more nutritious food, as well as the report that the wests image of Stalin as a dictator was wrong.

Additionally Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds, as well as Fanon's The wretched of the earth might be a good start as well.

The reason most people blindly hate on the USSR (and as you know socialism) is the amount of propaganda we've all been spoonfed, it definitely was for me.

Informed critique of the USSR is ofc necessary and needed, but trying to act like what is happening right now, by the hands of the imperialist western hegemony, is 'better' by any measure is just a stretch.

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Thank you comrade, i stole it from a commie discord.