USSR stamp commemorating the launch of the first satellite 'Sputnik'.
This is an interesting question asked by everyone. Why I like the Soviet Union? Born in a religious Brahmin family, leading a comfortable life, may not be a luxurious life with all riches but a good one. Yet, why would I like to support a communist country, which was popularly dubbed as the "Evil Empire" by the American President Ronald Reagan in 1983? I have a long answer for it.
Education was given a lot of importance and priority in the Soviet Union. Education was compulsory.
1. I have no brothers or sisters, so in life I was to consider my friends as brothers and sisters. That gradually erased all caste thoughts. Caste system wasn't there in the USSR. Racism was strictly prohibited. Everyone was considered to be equal. Even study of genetics was considered unlawful and against their theory.
Yuri Gargarin is the first human to travel in space. CCCP in Russian meant USSR.
2. I like women very much. It is not because that I am a man. It's because I don't have a sister. I have had successful moments in life. Sad moments too. I had no one to share my feelings. My opinion of women fluctuated all years, but the respect was still there even as I had numerous difference of opinions with women during my school/college days. Women were considered equal to men in the USSR. In World War 2, Soviet women pilots flew airplanes and fought against Germans. Women scientists assisted Men in all ambitious Soviet programs in space research, missile systems and technology.
Soviet women snipers during Second World War.
3. I hate to see people suffering. There should be no suffering, harassment of any human being in this world. People should have food, water, cloth to live comfortably, if not luxuriously. Both men and women should be given good education and moral values to preserve culture and originality. Sadly, in this world education is now being sold out to the person who is going to give the maximum money. Basic facilities are not available to a human being who is not wealthy.
March 8th, Women's day poster in the USSR asking all women to come out of household works to create a new world.
Poor people couldn't afford for medicines. People being discriminated in terms of color, religion, caste and appearance. A baby is sucking the breasts of its mother not knowing she is dead already. Things were different in the Soviet Union. I am not saying that the Soviet Union was a perfect state. At least, it was a good experiment. Medicine and Education were free to Soviet citizen, with food available at low cost. That's the reason why they developed quickly. After a devastating World War 2, they rebuilt quickly to launch the first artificial satellite, the Sputnik.
His Excellency Nikita Khruschev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union visits Integral Coach Factory(ICF), Perambur. Sergei Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union is also seen in the picture.
4. USSR had good relations with India. I am an Indian. I should be grateful to the Russians at least for that.
5. I like being self-reliant. This policy has backfired many times in my life. Even at times of difficulty, I resolve to manage things alone, but I have got good friends who always help me. The USSR was a self-reliant state, which designed and invented new things. It fought all its miseries alone. I like this character and hard working nature of this nation.
6. Pornography was prohibited in the USSR. Possessing such content would lead to a spot fine or even imprisonment. Any form of sexual harassment against women was dealt severely. Over here, we don't know what will happen and where? Schoolgirls, college girls are kidnapped and forced into pornography. Whatever, let's be with content with the USSR. Let's be happy that there was a nation, which strived for perfection. Soviet Union was a good experiment that failed due to various reasons.
The Red Army parade.
These 6 points could be my best possible answer. I still disapprove many of Soviet policies like Stalin's dictatorship rule, gulags, prisoner labor camps etc. But if there is something good it needs to be appreciated.
I got a lot of free time, so I thought of pouring all my thoughts on this Diwali day, the day Lord Krishna's consort Satyabama defeated evil demon 'Narakasuran'. So if by any chance anyone reads this article and if you are a girl/women commit yourself to improve your nation in any possible way you think and work hard to preserve Indian culture and originality. Remember that Russian women achieved it. Why can't you?
I have described the USSR without using words like Communism, Capitalism. Infact, I don't know the meaning of communism. I believe in God be it Vishnu, Jesus or Allah, I would be happy if anyone of them exists.
-Krishna Kumar.S
1 comment:
Well, I do have to say that I agree with you about all that you have mentioned in your post. I am a strong believer in communism, and recently, as I have studied history, I learned about the Soviet Union and all that happened to it. Of course, now that it is defunct, people can say that "oh, its a bad system", "the proof of its stupidity was in its collapse", etc, but we can't really judge a system that crashed due to economic means when we ourselves have put our "perfect capitalist system" into terrible problems. The Soviet Union wasn't perfect, but neither was the USA. But at least it was something that gave hope to all the communists around the world.
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