Why I Left Utopia|5 Minute Videos
Konstantin Kisin grew up in a progressive paradise. Childcare, health services, and college were complimentary. And why was he so eager to leave it?
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I grew up in a progressive paradise.
The space in between the haves and have-nots was virtually non-existent.
The literacy rate was nearly 100%.
Healthcare was free and universal.
Nobody fought over race, faith, or class.
Maternity leave was generous. Child care was totally free. There were no limitations on abortion.
So where was this paradise? No, it wasn’t Norway, Sweden, or Finland.
It was the Soviet Union.
Whatever I just described was true, and yet, life in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR, was a living hell.
Yes, income inequality hardly existed, however that was due to the fact that everybody was similarly bad. If you wanted a cars and truck, great luck.
They spent many of their time waiting in line for hours for food to feed their children. Disposable diapers were unheard of, as were vacuum cleaners.
Health care was complimentary– in theory. You could only get timely and good treatment if you had influence, connections, and cash to pay allurements.
Everybody was educated, but there were strings connected: if you went to college, the government chose what your profession would be and where you would live.
Ethnic and racial strife was limited, yes. But just because the federal government ruled by worry and fear, putting behind bars countless people–” enemies of the state”– in a vast network of prisoner-of-war camp referred to as gulags.
These “enemies” included my great-grandparents, who met in among these gulags. Every early morning, guards would randomly pick 3 prisoners and toss them into the icy waters of a neighboring lake, to drown in front of the whole camp.
New york city Times reporter Walter Duranty, a Stalin apologist, as soon as wrote, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
However in the Soviet Union, there were no omelets, just damaged lives, broken dreams, broken bodies.
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Konstantin Kisin grew up in a progressive paradise. Child care, health services, and college were free. And why was he so eager to leave it?
Maternity leave was generous. Child care was complimentary.
