The Soviet Union was supposed to be a worker's paradise.
In the beginning, the workers had some input. At least during the Lenin years.
During the Stalin years, that was quickly taken away. The unions became mouthpieces for the communist party.
And then we have the People's Army slaughtering the proletariat in the streets:
The
Novocherkassk massacre (
Russian: Новочеркасский расстрел,
romanized:
Novocherkasskiy rasstrel) was a
massacre committed against unarmed protesters on June 2, 1962, in the
Russian city of
Novocherkassk by the
Soviet army and
KGB officials.
[1] A few weeks earlier workers organised a
labor strike at the Novocherkassk
Electromotive (Electric Locomotive) Building Factory (NEBF).
"Information from a variety of sources is more or less unanimous that some
seventy or eighty people were killed".
Arrests,
show trials and cover-ups ensued: more than 200 were arrested; seven people were convicted and sentenced to death over various "crimes" such as "mass disorder" and approximately hundreds of others were imprisoned up to 15 years (terms of some of which were later reduced);
[5] news about events never appeared in the state-controlled press and they were held secret up until 1992.
[6][7] The 26 dead were secretly buried by KGB operatives in false graves which were never disclosed to relatives until June 2, 1994 when all bodies were discovered and reburied at the official memorial.
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Are you surprised that the dream of many working people met a bitter end under communism in the Soviet Union?
