What if you had your own guaranteed income, six month’s paid maternal leave, free health care and government-subsidized daycare? Wouldn’t that turn you on? It’s no pipe dream; for 70 years, the Soviet Bloc countries provided these benefits and much more to its women. And not solely to ensure a growing population of future workers. The Russian Revolution was sparked by women going factory to factory, demanding the Tsar pull out of World War I. At least at the initial flowering of Bolshevism, women’s rights were at the forefront. This history has been obscured, if not deliberately suppressed here […]
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