Back in PRL times it was the danish who came to us for abortions. Kinda funny how shit the situation is for us now.

Cuba has the most progrssive family code in the world, that was voted in by a referendum.

DDR was a forefront for trans rights, which all have been regressed after the Berlin wall fell.

But because countries of yesteryear aren't holding up to your standards of today I don't see this as fair argumentation. Hell, afro-americans had very positive experiences when visiting the USSR, being treated like an equal human being for one. Not even talking about soviets pushing sex equality in every field of life. Things like these were very much unheard of in the US at the time.

One of the few things left over from socialist times for Poland and other countries is about a 50/50 split in sex participation in the sciences.