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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLW" data-source="post: 4826783" data-attributes="member: 77893">I think you might be able to argue this with China. Their political system is basically just a continued dynastic system and their economic power comes from a kind of authoritarian capitalism that other countries managed to adopt without any brutal change. Granted, those countries are still oppressive nightmares, but at least they avoided the persecutions and famines etc.But with Russia, it's no contest: Stalinism took what was essentially an 18th century feudal state and turned into an extremely advanced 20th century global hegemon in a period of 20 years. It "worked," but that's not really the problem. The problem is the massive cost in human life.</blockquote>