This comes on a day when the media is also demanding that Republicans condemn Neo-Nazism. Meanwhile the New York Pravda continues running stories glamorizing Communism.
"Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism" - Kristen R. Ghodsee / New York Times:
The headline says Socialism, but the examples come from the Soviet Union and its Communist allies. It also perfectly combines today's narcissistic lifestyle feminism with nostalgia for Stalin.
Consider Ana Durcheva from Bulgaria, who was 65 when I first met her in 2011. “Sure, some things were bad during that time, but my life was full of romance,” she said.
This is right up there with George Soros describing how exciting life was under the Nazis.
The New York Times seems much less interested in exploring the lives of women in the USSR who were shot, gulaged, raped in KGB cellars. But it will do its best to claim that sex was better under a brutal Communist dictatorship. And then suggest that maybe we could use one of those.
The only actual basis for the Times' headline is a comment by Ana that her life used to be much more romantic and a "comparative sociological study of East and West Germans". Who conducted the study? Was it ever duplicated? Who knows. That's how leftist "science" works. You base a dubious or horrifying thesis on some one shot study somewhere.
The predictable pitch is that Communist women had more leisure time because the government offered so many services. But in reality, there was far less leisure time under Communism. Indeed the focus of the Duranty 2.0 piece is on Warsaw Pact, rather than the actual USSR, where life in general was better because they had spent less time under Communism and were to some degree subsidized by the USSR. East Germans in general lived far better than Russians. It's telling that the New York Times looks everywhere except at Russia. Because that would be far too revealing.
Not to mention that "life is hard" now because the Communists wrecked the economies of entire countries forcing them to work hard to rebuild.
Meanwhile the Times piece is full of revisionist history that would have shamed Duranty.
The Soviets extended full suffrage to women in 1917, three years before the United States did.
Yes, women in the USSR had the same right as men, to be unable to vote. Women, like men, could vote for Stalin, or be sent to a gulag.
After the Bolshevik takeover, Vladimir Lenin and Aleksandra Kollontai enabled a sexual revolution in the early years of the Soviet Union
Then Lenin ordered her to marry her second husband, who was eventually killed by Stalin. And after, Kollontai spent the Stalin years terrified that she was about to be killed, using her feminine wiles on Stalin so that he wouldn't kill her and kept alive mainly to be used in international forums as proof of how liberal the USSR was.
#Feminism.
Because they championed sexual equality — at work, at home and in the bedroom — and were willing to enforce it, Communist women who occupied positions in the state apparatus could be called cultural imperialists. But the liberation they imposed radically transformed millions of lives across the globe, including those of many women who still walk among us as the mothers and grandmothers of adults in the now democratic member states of the European Union. Those comrades’ insistence on government intervention may seem heavy-handed to our postmodern sensibilities, but sometimes necessary social change — which soon comes to be seen as the natural order of things — needs an emancipation proclamation from above.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Sometimes you need a Communist regime to force your political agenda. And gulag everyone who disagrees.
.The nostalgia for Communism is a mandate to revisit its atrocities.