ms. omarova, in 2019 she tweeted, and i quote, say what you will about the old ussr.re's no gender pay gap there. markets don't always know best, end quote. say would you will about the old ussr. really? there's a lot to say. i'll have a lot to say on another occasion about the old ussr. she followed up with a tweet. she decided to clarify that. here's the tweet she issued afterwards. she said, and i quote, i never claimed women and men were treated absolutely equally in every facet of soviet life, but people's salaries were set by the state in a gender-blind manner and all women got very generous maternity benefits of those things are still a pipe dream in our society. can you imagine? ms. omarova clearly knows her views are far outside of the mainstream. how do we know? well, why else would her most recent respect pay have been scrubbed of one particular item that was on her resume as recently as 2017. that item is the thesis that she wrote when she was a student in moscow on her vladimir lenin academic scholarship. the title of the thesis was and i quote, carl marx