• repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      This has little to do with socialism/capitalism and more with that fact that the economy was centrally (terribly) governed and most of the products were exported to the “friend nation USSR”

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        75% of sugar output exported to the Sovs while the citizens of Poland ‘enjoyed’ sugar rationing.

        • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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          75% of sugar output exported to moscow and leningrad, you think the people of anywhere outside the immediate vicinity of those two cities got to see any of it? Let alone anywhere east of the Urals?

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        Comunimsm is not that bad! It only has a 100% failure rate, but that’s the CIA/UFO/Soros fault!

        • gmtom@lemmy.world
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          16 hours ago

          Reminder you live in a country where you have to pay other people to deny you healthcare.

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            14 hours ago

            Plenty of countries with universal healthcare that are also capatalistic societies. I love communism, too but the other comment had a valid point.

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          Ussr never fully recovered after ww2 and had to engage in a very expensive arms race while attempting to rebuild. Imo saying that communism doesn’t work often forgets this fact.

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            I mean, they didn’t have to engage in an arms race, any more than either side had to go to space or the moon. They did so for the propaganda, and to make themselves look tough, the same as the US.

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      14 hours ago

      They are in the same place where pro-capitalist liberals are when people talk about food insecurity in today’s West, and let’s face it, the rest of the non-Western world.