
BBB advocate Bernie Sanders extolled the USSR in 1988, three years later the empire collapsed
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Bernie Sanders visited the Soviet Union in 1988 and praised it for its transportation systems and public programs three years before it fell.
"The fact that we were willing to be critical of the United States … I think that made them maybe more appreciative of our criticisms we made of their own society," Sanders said in ‘88 when he returned home.
"We were saying, ‘Yeah, in our country, we also have a housing crisis. Our housing in general is better than yours, but people are paying 40 percent of their income for housing. The quality of your housing is not good, but we appreciate the fact that people are paying 5 percent. The quality of your health care is not good, but in the United States, believe me, we have enormous problems in terms of our health-care system.’"