It makes me so angry to think about. The words I have cease to be sufficient. Atrocity, crime, crime against humanity, none of them properly and fully convey the weight of the suffering and evil of what happened in the sphere of the rights of women and girls alone (to say nothing of the wider proletariat) in the aftermath of the illegal dissolution of the USSR.

I think Bill Clinton should replace Kissinger now that he’s dead on our list of people we hope suffer. Given the amount of human misery he presided over, given the fact he is a pedophile child rapist and trafficker.

The initial book that radicalized me as a early teenager was reading Victor Malarek’s “The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade” precisely on the massive wave of human trafficking that arose from the former USSR and Eastern Europe through the economic genocide enacted on the former Socialist peoples.

The work was such a categorical denunciation of the living conditions of that region since the 90s, not through any ideologically-inclined argument but through its coverage of this atrocity that it was impossible for me to ever accept afterwards that the collapse of the “enemy” system was a “good thing” worth celebrating. At that point, it didn’t matter how many redditors came up to me with their “my friend’s neighbor’s grand-uncle had a bad time under communism” bit and the libertarian emphasis on legalizing the sex trade alienated me at a fundamental level from those groups as well, even before I remotely touched any theory or met any comrade groups.

Muh comunis 😩 /s Just skimmed, looks like a solid piece of work and creates strong but noble emotions. Why such articles are not in mainstream ☹️