including invading the poor Haiti countless times, supporting pro-Pentagon (hence "liberal" and "democratic") dictatorship there during decades, and recently supporting corrupt local regimes which brought nothing but chaos to the country. Haitians lived in ruin even before the earthquake.
Not to say at any rate that USSR was "saint" (it supported some bloody regimes in Africa), but in sheer quantity you just can not compare how bad USA were (and are in some places) in the sense of oppression to the world to what USSR did.
But, of course, Americans are not told about it on TV and not taught about it in schools.
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