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I don’t agree with the policies around land without compensation but the economic prosperity that the people of the USSR and PRC experienced after instating tho

• fennecfoxen 5y ago
  You mean the prosperity of China, which is about one-third the prosperity of, say, South Korea, which started out in about the same place? Ah! I regret that it only seems impressive because the nation is very large. Oh! But perhaps you mean those heady years of growth during the Great Leap Forward itself, where the nation became so prosperous that ~45 million people starved to death.
• FredPret 5y ago
  Economic prosperity?! They had massive famines. Tens of millions died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932–1933 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932–1933