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Camila Monção Miranda

Research Manager

Learn Liberty

Camila is Research Manager at Learn Liberty. She majored in History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, has a Master’s degree in Social History from the Federal University of Amazonas, and is currently an Economic History Ph.D. candidate at the University of São Paulo. Her first approach to pro-liberty thinking happened through SFL in 2015.

Blog Posts

The Soviet Union’s terrible legacy on democracy and minority rights

February 7, 2024
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Democracy and Voting

From the series: Debunking Myths about the Soviet Union  Since they first seized power, Soviet leaders have claimed their “democracy” to be the best in history. However, their understanding of democracy differs significantly from that of the United States and other Western nations. This second piece of a series addressing myths about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) will focus on the country’s strange legacy on democracy and minority rights.  Was the USSR democratic? The book Soviet Democracy was published in 1947 by Harry Frederick Ward Jr, an American Methodist

Don’t be fooled, life in the Soviet Union was awful

June 5, 2023
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Basic Economics

The Soviet Union collapsed over 30 years ago. But, to this day, many people still defend the socialist regime and continue to propagate myths, often contaminated with a certain nostalgia, which ignore unfortunate, controversial, and terrible facts about the Soviet past. In this first piece of a series addressing myths about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), we will focus on the issues of poverty, inequality, and quality of life. Social inequality in the Soviet Union Behind the facade of the Soviet Union's proclaimed mission to eliminate inequality and establish

Is Covid China’s Chernobyl?

April 4, 2023
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Censorship

Just as COVID has changed our lives in many ways since 2020, Chernobyl changed the world in 1986. These were two great disasters emanating from two major communist nations. The results and consequences of both will affect us for a very long time, maybe even forever. As many will know, Chernobyl was instrumental in accelerating the end of the Soviet Union and is critical to our understanding of this period. However, could COVID be the key to understanding, in the future, perhaps, the end of Communist China? Is Covid China’s Chernobyl? We can’t predict the future, of course. Nonetheless,