Message from @Deleted User

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2017-08-08 09:59:14 UTC  

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2017-08-08 10:00:19 UTC  

>imblying capitalist nations don't experience brain drains for a multiplicity of reasons

2017-08-08 10:02:56 UTC  

>believing something someone wrote on the internet
>believing statistics written by the soviet union themselves at a time of intense rivalry and dick measuring
>99% literacy rate, nuff said

2017-08-08 10:03:37 UTC  

@Deleted User Children near the North pol were taken by helicopters to school.

2017-08-08 10:03:45 UTC  

not sure of the exact numbers, but high literacy rates in the Soviet Union are typically accepted by critics and supporters; it was necessary for state-funded propaganda

2017-08-08 10:03:54 UTC  

not really necessary under monarchism

2017-08-08 10:04:02 UTC  

>people from the north pole were taken by helicopters to arrive at their free education

2017-08-08 10:04:10 UTC  

wow the state must have had so much money to hand around

2017-08-08 10:04:17 UTC  

Yes

2017-08-08 10:04:41 UTC  

yo

2017-08-08 10:04:42 UTC  

>successfully seized the means
>no money

2017-08-08 10:04:47 UTC  

yo

2017-08-08 10:04:48 UTC  

what the fuck is this chat even about

2017-08-08 10:04:53 UTC  

lefty shit

2017-08-08 10:05:01 UTC  

gommulism

2017-08-08 10:05:14 UTC  

and the artist formerly known as socialism

2017-08-08 10:05:24 UTC  

i see

2017-08-08 10:05:27 UTC  

theres a difference between high rates of literacy and 99%

2017-08-08 10:05:43 UTC  

possibly the most bs statistic i have read in a while

2017-08-08 10:05:54 UTC  

sure, I think the Tsarist rates were about 18% tho, still a substantial increase

2017-08-08 10:06:18 UTC  

especially considering a lot of the population had a poorer standard of life compared to their western counterpart

2017-08-08 10:06:31 UTC  

It was an inevitable increase

2017-08-08 10:06:35 UTC  

a fascist state could've done so

2017-08-08 10:06:40 UTC  

nothing exclusive to communism

2017-08-08 10:06:51 UTC  

😄 Interesting, but even official US propaganda didn't deny literacy. Not even in a dream.

2017-08-08 10:07:04 UTC  

>even us propaganda didn't deny 99% literacy rate

2017-08-08 10:07:17 UTC  

>children being flown from the north pole to school in helicopters

2017-08-08 10:07:28 UTC  

>russian children having enough food to feed themselves

2017-08-08 10:07:57 UTC  

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2017-08-08 10:08:20 UTC  

so you guys just post to a message board and meme about isms?

2017-08-08 10:08:36 UTC  

Is that a state of denial?

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2017-08-08 10:08:38 UTC  

sure

2017-08-08 10:08:47 UTC  

not everyone's a commie

2017-08-08 10:09:29 UTC  

>a communist asking someone if they're in a state of denial

2017-08-08 10:09:44 UTC  

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2017-08-08 10:10:13 UTC  

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2017-08-08 10:10:26 UTC  

apparently railway workers and the Red Army did bretty well http://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution

2017-08-08 10:10:33 UTC  

While the adult literacy campaign’s accomplishments were thus limited, and much of the data is hotly contested as a result of Stalinist distortions, it had important successes. In its first year of existence, the campaign reached five million people, “about half of whom learned to read and write.”36 While literacy statistics are hard to find, it is worth noting that the number of rural mailboxes increased from 2,800 in 1913 to 64,000 in 1926 as newspaper subscriptions and the exchange of written communications substantially increased—a notable corollary of increased literacy. In unions, literacy programs were quite successful. To give one example, a campaign among railway workers led to a 99 percent literacy rate by 1924.37 Similarly, in the Red Army, where literacy and education were deemed crucial to ensure that soldiers were politically engaged with its project, illiteracy rates decreased from 50 percent to only 14 percent three years later, and 8 percent one year after that. On its seventh anniversary, the army achieved a 100 percent literacy rate, an immense accomplishment, even if short-lived, as new conscripts made continual education necessary.

2017-08-08 10:10:35 UTC  

I suppose communist propaganda is still taught in schools over there

2017-08-08 10:11:32 UTC  

"an immense accomplishment, even if short-lived, as new conscripts made continual education necessary."

2017-08-08 10:12:31 UTC  

Question: How many of those people died young?