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My dad was born in poverty in Newcastle and joined the communist party aged 14 in 1934. I grew up in middle class affluence and so, as sons do, through the 1970s we often argued politics. He honestly believed that only communism could create good human societies, and that everything bad that we heard about Russia from the Western media was just propaganda.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the cold war but, was he right?
