DISINFO: USSR forced the West to form a middle class, overcome segregation and develop education and human rights.
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Kremlin.ru ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: October 19, 2017
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: USSR

DISINFO: USSR forced the West to form a middle class, overcome segregation and develop education and human rights.

SUMMARY

As an answer to the challenges from the USSR became the formation of a powerful middle class, development of education, guaranteeing human rights, and overcoming permitting segregation [in the West].

RESPONSE

Powerful middle class, high standards of education, human rights, overcoming segregation etc. are the result of the Western democracy’s development throughout its centuries-old history, not the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

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