Achievements of socialism: Difference between revisions

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The bourgeois press regularly demonizes socialism and communism and promotes the idea that "socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried." This page is designed to debunk these claims with historical facts.

USSR

The broad masses of pre-revolutionary Russia were deeply poor and lacked basic necessities, while only the upper class had access to education and healthcare.

Following the Russian Revolution and subsequent establishment of the USSR, the following rights were introduced:

The right to eight-hour work day.
The right to annual paid leave.
The right to three-year maternity leave.
The right to free general and professional education, including higher education.
The right to free health care.
The right to use nurseries, kindergartens, summer camps — free of charge.
The right to free sanatorium-and-spa treatment.
The right to free housing.
Equal rights for women.

Many of these rights forced Western bourgeois dictatorships to adopt similar policies, to stave off the risk of a proletarian revolution.

Space Race

During the Space Race between the two cold war superpowers, the USSR and the USA, the USSR achieved many great leaps before the US did.

First artificial satellite - Sputnik 1
First animal in space - Laika
First photographs of the far side of the moon - Luna 3
First person in space - Yuri Gagarin
First woman in space - Valentina Tereshkova
First spacewalk - Alexei Leonov
First spacecraft landing on the moon - Luna 9
First spacecraft landing on another planet (Venus) - Venera 7
First space station - Salyut 1
First spacecraft landing on Mars - Mars 3

Notable Technologies Invented

The following are technologies not already listed in the space race section above

Life support machine called the Autojektor, invented in 1926.^[1]
Human anthrax vaccine in 1930, predated by a French invention of an anthrax vaccine for animals.^[1]
Artificial heart in 1937^[1]
Mobile phone in 1957 (20 years before Motorola, the first non-soviet mobile phone producer)^[1]

Latin America

Nicaragua

Nicaragua, under the socialist Sandinista government, has diversified away from colonial-era cash crops and monocultures, delivered sustained economic growth, poverty alleviation.^[2]

Cuba

Despite the US blockade, Cuba is still able to boast having the highest quality healthcare system for its national income range.^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 10 Greastest Inventions Made By The Soviet Union
↑ Nicaraguan Sandinista Economic Model Consolidates Its Success by TeleSur
↑ Mostly Anti-Cuba article that is forced to report cold hard facts: How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost by The Atlantic

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 10 Greastest Inventions Made By The Soviet Union

[2] Nicaraguan Sandinista Economic Model Consolidates Its Success by TeleSur

[3] Mostly Anti-Cuba article that is forced to report cold hard facts: How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost by The Atlantic

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 Many of these rights forced Western bourgeois dictatorships to adopt similar policies, to stave off the risk of a proletarian revolution.
+=== Space Race ===
+[[File:Space Race Meme.png|thumb|355x355px|Chart of "firsts" achieved by the participants in the space race, illustrating the US propaganda's attempt to paint the US as the winner of the space race. ]]
+During the Space Race between the two cold war superpowers, the USSR and the USA, the USSR achieved many great leaps before the US did.
+* First artificial satellite - [[Sputnik 1]]
+* First animal in space - [[Laika]]
+* First photographs of the far side of the moon - [[Luna 3]]
+* First person in space - [[Yuri Gagarin]]
+* First woman in space - [[Valentina Tereshkova]]
+* First spacewalk - [[Alexei Leonov]]
+* First spacecraft landing on the moon - [[Luna 9]]
+* First spacecraft landing on another planet (Venus) - [[Venera 7]]
+* First space station - [[Salyut 1]]
+* First spacecraft landing on Mars - [[Mars 3]]
+=== Notable Technologies Invented ===
+The following are technologies not already listed in the space race section above
+* Life support machine called the Autojektor, invented in 1926.<ref name=":0">[https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-greastest-inventions-made-by-the-soviet-union.html 10 Greastest Inventions Made By The Soviet Union]</ref>
+* Human anthrax vaccine in 1930, predated by a French invention of an anthrax vaccine for animals.<ref name=":0" />
+* Artificial heart in 1937<ref name=":0" />
+* Mobile phone in 1957 (20 years before Motorola, the first non-soviet mobile phone producer)<ref name=":0" />
 == Latin America ==
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 * [[Nicaragua]], under the socialist [[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinista]] government, has diversified away from colonial-era cash crops and monocultures, delivered sustained economic growth, poverty alleviation.<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Nicaraguan-Sandinista-Economic-Model-Consolidates-Its-Success-20160130-0005.html Nicaraguan Sandinista Economic Model Consolidates Its Success] by [[TeleSur]]</ref>
+=== Cuba ===
+* Despite the US blockade, Cuba is still able to boast having the highest quality healthcare system for its national income range.<ref>Mostly Anti-Cuba article that is forced to report cold hard facts: [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-health/508859/ How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost] by [[The Atlantic]]</ref>
 == See also ==