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The US had to ship wheat to Russia to keep them from starving. There was a billboard put up in Kansas at the time: "Welcome to the Breadbasket of the Soviet Un
by WalterBright 8d ago
The US had to ship wheat to Russia to keep them from starving.
There was a billboard put up in Kansas at the time: "Welcome to the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union".
It would be worth your while to read a history of the USSR.
> pick one
The correlation between prosperity and free markets is a very strong one.
P.S. In WW2, the US supplied all its allies (including the USSR) with massive amounts of food and military aid. And the US fought WW2 in two hemispheres. That's what free markets delivered. The evidence is everywhere you look and is overwhelming.
- tombert 8d agoI didn't claim that the USSR was doing well compared to the US. In fact I said the opposite. I said that the USSR was economically more prosperous than Uganda, and was not wrong about that. Prosperity is a relative term, and pointing out that the US was/is rich isn't actually demonstrating anything outside of your inability to read.
- WalterBright 8d agoSorry I'm not interested in your diversion into Uganda.
- tombert 7d agoMy point wasn’t Uganda, my point was, and it still is, that “prosperity” is a relative term. I also have no interest in talking about the minutia of Uganda. I was pointing out that the USSR was “rich” by comparison to some other countries.