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I think you missed that detail where communism caused massive poverty and starvation
Congratulations, you just described capitalism
Amazing that you get down voted for pointing out facts. Tankies sure are a thing and I can already hear them writing a furious reply to this post
Thankfully this isn't hexbear or some other tankie instance because there, I'd be 100% banned for wrongthink.
There’s a substantial difference between living a bourgeois lifestyle and being fed that I think you’re discounting.
In many instances communism couldn't even feed their own citizens. In case of USSR puppet states even most basic products were rationed, like bread, shugar or chocolate. If you needed a washing machine, you couldn't just go and buy one with your money, you had to hunt for one like for GPU during crypto boom. in 2021 And if you wanted a computer, like ZX Spectrum, or Commodore, you could only get it for these filthy capitalist dollars.
And you know how much people earned in dollar terms? like $50 monthly.
I am not well read on the subject, so forgive me, but how much of those USSR puppet issues were caused by Communism itself, and not by misguided Stalinist agricultural / industrial policy?
The core of these misguided policies was control of means of production in form of centrally planned economy. It just didn't work.
How many did he kill according to communist propaganda?
Okay you're just a dumb tankie.
Read about Holdomor. Read about starvation under Mao in the 60s. Or in North Korea in the 90s. You should also look into Russian gulag slave camps. And into avg quality of life of Ussr VS western cityzens.
TLDR you bought into communist cult.
You are not attacking communism, you are talking against totalitarian regimes. People were starving in the great depression too. People today work two jobs just to stay alive, i feel you are not one of them.
It just happens that communist regimes commited all these atrocities. Pure accident.
Great depression happened once and had the span of 10 years. Communism has history of massive poverty and starvation over the entire 20th century. For the entirety except few periods of economic distress, the wealth difference between communist and capitalist states is unquestionable. Communism doesn't work. It doesn't work to the point of former USSR puppet states voting it away in democratic elections... Once the fall of USSR allowed untampered elections that is.
There was a great depression, and many many small depressions.
At least capitalism gave us door dash and only fans. So people can survive.
Btw atrocities are not exclusive for communism. But i guess you don't count all the humans killed by colonial and capitalist regimes. And don't get me started on raping the environment. For somebody's fifth yacht.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Russia
And Russia somehow had it's own ecosystem and is not connected with the global climate.
You get a hard-on hating communism like some who hate blacks or muslims, you were conditioned into that. Rich western white people tend to do that.
Better. My parents were born in it. My grandparents live through it, and I spend my childhood in ruined economy after this garbage has been abolished. If you played Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, this was my childhood IRL. (Stadium with illegal weapons and software included). Even with access to EU common market and EU infrastructure subsidies it took two decades before this place became worth living in.
You are a fucking child, and haven't seen a jack shit in your life.
I was born in 1977 in Yugoslavia. I could probably be your dad. Who could have learned you some manners.
Then I guess you forgot what kind of shit hole it was back then, and what kind of progress happened since the fall of communism in europe