The NYTs - Shilling for the Soviets since the 1920s

It must be something in their cognitive DNA. The New York Times has been shilling for the Soviets since the 1920s with their shameful Moscow Bureau Chief Walter Duranty writing reports about the wonderful progress the Soviet system represented to humanity. His defense of Stalin and his deceit over the reality of and causes for the Great Famine of the early 1930s constituted what even the Times itself later acknowledged as "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper."

A couple of years, still suffering from early onset TDS, the Times proffered the fatuous claim Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee.

Pathetic for the balm of sweet social justice to cool their continuing TDS fever, they now offer.

America may have put the first man on the moon, but the Soviet Union sent the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the U.S. would follow suit https://t.co/DrTZYxvbD7

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 18, 2019

Oh, dear. While the dream of Marxism warms the cockles of NYT reporters's hearts, fortunately there are realists out there to correct the record.

USSR and post-Soviet Russia combined? 4 women astronauts since 1963. The USA? Almost 50, including all these firsts: mother, Chinese-born woman, payload specialist, married couple, black woman, hispanic woman, shuttle pilot and commander, ISS commander, and teacher. Also oldest. https://t.co/SFQLyjw9Gm

— Holly (Maths Geek) (@hollymathnerd) July 18, 2019

I'll see your 4 Social Justice Points and raise you 50.