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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4827273" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>To expand on the &quot;extremely advanced.&quot; The Soviet Union had many crop failures.&nbsp; Had to import wheat and other grains.&nbsp; What products did it develop and sell around the world other than military weaponry?&nbsp; And the fact was that it was Russians dominating other ethnic and racial groups in its many republics.&nbsp; I spent 7 months in 4 of them in 2018.&nbsp; The one thing that was consistent was how many times I was told they hated the Russians.&nbsp; Man in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the capital, told me that when they became independent after the collapse they literally had nothing.&nbsp; That the development I was seeing, which looked very new, was all due to capitalism.&nbsp; And that was basically in the prosperous center.&nbsp; Outside of that it was extraordinarily poor.&nbsp; So people in ivory towers theorize about how wonderful communism could be, even convince themselves it was a legitimate alternative to the West, but the reality on the ground is quite different.&nbsp; Think how much further the former communist world could be along if they hadn&#039;t gotten mired in that economic dogma for decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4827273, member: 24302"] To expand on the "extremely advanced." The Soviet Union had many crop failures. Had to import wheat and other grains. What products did it develop and sell around the world other than military weaponry? And the fact was that it was Russians dominating other ethnic and racial groups in its many republics. I spent 7 months in 4 of them in 2018. The one thing that was consistent was how many times I was told they hated the Russians. Man in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the capital, told me that when they became independent after the collapse they literally had nothing. That the development I was seeing, which looked very new, was all due to capitalism. And that was basically in the prosperous center. Outside of that it was extraordinarily poor. So people in ivory towers theorize about how wonderful communism could be, even convince themselves it was a legitimate alternative to the West, but the reality on the ground is quite different. Think how much further the former communist world could be along if they hadn't gotten mired in that economic dogma for decades. [/QUOTE]

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