"Here's Your Civilization!", evergreen Soviet Armenian poster highlighting the issue of segregation and racism in the United States, 1957. (midwest.social)

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There were plenty of non-black ethnic groups that the Soviets treated poorly. (Though it was mainly Stalin and he treated everyone poorly.)

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed. However, the issue that was painted - and is still painted to a degree - is that somehow, American racism was/is a symbol of western failure.. And they always seemed to ignore the oppression in their own societies.

I've always maintained that shitting on the US is an easy thing to do since most of our history is a fairly open book. Go look into other countries and even into non-western nations and their own inter-racial, inter-tribal, inter-religious strife and what you see with a bit of digging, isn't any different.

It's human nature writ large across time and place.