It has forever solidified a practical and real point of reference of a socialist experiment not only being some idea in the heads of intellectuals, but a real entity, that did not cave into restoring capitalism.
An entity that every western education system still feels the need to slander and misrepresent as to diminish just it's symbolic effect 30 years after it has illegally been torn apart.

Of course there are countless mistakes – grave ones even – and degenerations to take into account, it was not perfect, but it was closer to giving the average person a dignified life than any bourgeois "democracy" could ever hope to do.

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Yes! There are many legitimate criticisms against the Soviet Union, but it was truly an unprecedented experimentation of an alternative system that gave the Western capitalist bloc a run for their money (pun very much intended).

The concept of a socialist state built on a supranational identity is unparalleled even to this very day.