better than russia tho

Over 70%

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literacy is a meme

tbh

>ywn get to be a cossack charging a machine gun nest for your Tsar

it was pushed on the masses for ideological reasons

Ye I guess I can't argue with that

it's not a good metric of anything

yeah cuba has a high literacy rate and they are gay af

Actually no most were like 50-60%

you think the 19th century factory worker benefited much from being able to read well?

nope

"Literacy is not a good metric of anything" yep, it's big brain time

I'm not saying reading bad

the eastern front didnt rerally use trench warfare dana

I'm saying it was pushed on the pop

from the top down

i know but they still had machine guns @Lucienne d'Anwyl

for ideological reasons

and did not actually serve much purpose in the immediate

yeah literacy was pushed by Protestants and communists

not just

"Look at all these soulless ideologues wanting people to know how to read!!!"

but also those, yes

stop being gay, kitten

I'm just describing facts

not judging them

Well yes I mean of course

Discord is the best place to gather facts about history

bestest

top tier

wanna see my nudes?

And learn how apparently people were forced to learn to read in order to...uhh...ideology and shit

I mean they kinda were

the idea was to enlighten society

from the top down

it was an ideological endeavor

Are we heading into some anti-enlightenment territory now?

which had little to do with practical, down to earth helping the poor

reading, as I said, was not *that* useful to many