In 60's authorities of USSR promised will be achieved by 1980, with almost everything available for free, 6 hours of work per day etc. This is literally written in this 60's textbook.

Reality: in 1962 workers of Electromotive factory in Novocherkassk organise a strike and protest against ever-inreasing work quotas and skyrocketing food prices. 26 are shot to death, hundreds arrested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocher

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At the same time Jean-Paul Sartre in France fiercely argues that people in USSR have "complete freedom of criticism" and repressed dissident writers "still had the opportunity of rehabilitating themselves by writing better books".

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