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Womans day in Poland? [242]
This Women's Day lark is a Commie thing
Not a Commie thing per se, but Socialist instead.
By the time the USSR adopted it as an official holiday in the 1920s, it had been recognized as an official holiday in Austria, Germany and other places.
To us - Valentine's Day is the grotesque, materialistic, recent import.
Incidentally, how do you square the fact that women achieved a more equal status in backwards and primitive Russia, first, before the women of the West?
1) Russia was the first major power to grant its women the right to vote.
2) Abortion was made legal in 1920.
3) In 1922 marital rape became illegal.
4) First legally-mandated maternity leave
5) First public child care centers
6) Constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women
7) First sniper ace woman
8) First woman in space
Your Western countries only moved towards feminism, to keep pace with the Soviet Union on the moral front.
We were the first country in the world to take seriously the question of equality between genders.
Lenin wrote: "To effect [woman's] emancipation and make her the equal of man, it is necessary to be socialized and for women to participate in common productive labor. Then woman will be the equal of man."
This position was built atop Marx's earlier theorizing regarding the role of women.
