[pjc50]

Even the Soviet Union made people go to school, and getting a degree was a route to higher status.

(there have been a few Communist revolutions against the concept of "university", for various political reasons, but China rebuilt theirs after the purges and Cambodia is a sad historical footnote)

[realitybit3z]

IN RESPONSE TO Even the Soviet Union made people go to school, and getting a degree was a route to higher status.

Also people did that to avoid Dedovshchina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/russia1004/2.htm

[NoOn3]

At least in the Soviet Union, they were free...

[thatoneguy]

In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union

- Yakov Smirnoff, probably