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Yep, it is similar. I just went through various Soviet posters as I was looking for an image for this story, and I screamed. The propaganda is just so blatant, and it changed from one decade to another, it is so obvious when looking back.

I think the difference is that today, the people who are officially woke are usually a lot better off in the material sense than the early Soviet "proletariat" was. But the principle is very similar!

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Better off materially, and, I would say, far more spiritually deprived and hungry! Spritually hungry people are to be pitied and ultimately loved... but they are dangerous!!!

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I like how you put it. Theresa! Thank you

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Perhaps we meet reflections of as yet unconscious aspects of our self, such that recognising what we judge as NOT who they are, releases them AND us.

This is releasing another of our demands they be as we would have them be. Not releasing them from the consequences of their own choices, and the freedom to uncover better choices.

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