I was wondering why the USSR is universally beloved among Marxist-Leninists but other AES states tend to be more controversial. So I looked into it.
Saved Europe from Fascism Abolished private property Abolished wealth accumulation Centrally Planned Economy, quotas, prices, wages, EVERYTHING State Atheism - BASED Universal Literacy First Man Into Space Public Healthcare Public Housing Public Transportation
Holy sea cow SpongeBob! Any anarchist would fall out of their chair if one of their projects achieved even one of these things.
What in your opinion are the greatest policies and achievements of The USSR?
THEY WON THE SPACE RACE!!!!
Even though the fucking yankes claim otherwise.
They not only put the first man on space, they also put the first woman, the first mammal (a dog named Laika), the first satellite , the first space station, the first lunar probe, and the first Venus probe. The only reason the yankes claim they won is because they took a selfie on the moon.
They also built the first commercial (for lack of a better word) nuclear power plant.
I was just going to add a picture of Laika
on the way I stumbled upon Some Unknown Pages of the Living Organisms' First Orbital Flight a short writing presented by D C Malashenkov about his recollections of the Sputnik 2 project at 2002 Second World Space Congress.
In 1954 they make a To Do List. By 1957 it is a Done List. Then it is decided to do Sputnik 2 (with Laika) 1 month later. While they had been doing work to build up to sending animals up, it was not expected so soon. They had to do all the training, testing, and engineering in 1 month!
You can read what they did in the link. Apparently this is considered definitive regarding the manner of her death, as previously there were different accounts.