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Help me debunk 'If the Soviet Union was so great, how come people wanted to leave? How come they had to build a wall to keep people in?' (hexbear.net)

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How debunk this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In fact the US has a policy of mostly taking in refugees from these countries. The US rarely, if ever, takes in refugees from people fleeing their puppet regimes. It would make them look bad (Chile and much of South America is a great example)

This is an excellent point that never exactly occurred to me in this way, for some reason