The Soviets were so progressive. Just stunning and brave.
what ddid they mean by this?
Meanwhile, back on Earth:
Black African students again are complaining about alleged racial discrimination here, with a public militancy not seen in the decade since several hundred marched through Red Square with signs charging that “Moscow is another Alabama.”
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Two public protests by Africans occurred recently. In Lvov early this month, the African student union alleged that blacks there “have been beaten up on the streets, in the hostels, and in our own rooms, and told we have no right to complain,” according to a statement to their embassies. Among eight violent incidents cited, it charged that three Nigerians were recently expelled for repelling a chisel-wielding Soviet drunk who attacked one of them while he slept in his room. A brief student strike by the Africans ensued.
–Robert C. Toth (Los Angeles Times Service), “Black protest again mounts in Moscow,” Honolulu Advertiser , November 28, 1975
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/261819916/
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We need to forget our painful past that was the space program. I wish that we could simply blow up the moon and try again with a more diverse team of astronauts, preferable led by the disabled, obese, purple-haired, transgendered feminist sort who freely roamed the halls of the NY Times in the 1960s.
