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You try to cherry-pick facts to prove that somehow, someway that communism is superior to capitalism. This ignores a century of evidence showing communism has only lead to mass death, mass misery, and poverty in the form of systematic theft and wealth transfer to an elite that the system is somehow meant to prevent. It ignores human nature and the reality that this system enforces economic slavery with little to show for it. The people of that generation were failed by economic mismanagement, both before, and after the fall of the USSR. Instead of the China model of allowing capitalism a slow ramp up while keeping certain things nationalized they instead decided to simply destroy their existing institutions. That is not a failure of capitalism. That is a failure of Russia and of the Russian people and their communist system which instilled a national tradition of corruption the likes of which no western nation has ever seen. No poll is going to change the economic success of China and of Eastern Europe in the wake of the fall of the Iron Curtain. A downvote with a textual rebuke is the most polite we can be on this topic. Your entire career path as it stands now is a product of western capitalist nations working together for common purpose and for the betterment of mankind.

If you had any sense you would be on your hands and knees thanking providence for the luck you had being born in a time and place where you are able to pick and choose your own destiny instead of being shoehorned into a blue collar 8 to 6 factory job refining crude oil for the soviet state or being sent to a front line like those poor North Korean soldiers.




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