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With who? China is a third world country and Russia is making itself into one.

• int_19h 4y ago
  In terms of quality of life, USSR was also a third world country. But a third world country with aircraft carriers and ICBMs is a very different story for those who have to interact with it.
  • thrown_22 4y ago
    The USSR was by definition a second world country. Third world countries in the in the 1960 had life expectancy on the order of 35 years. The USSR twice that at 67. Colonialism was not a picnic for the people colonialised.
    • int_19h 4y ago
      "Third world" can cover a lot of ground. Argentina was and remains third world, for example, and its life expectancy was 65 years in 1960, so same ballpark as USSR. And to remind, much of USSR was (and much of Russia still is) colonized people. That, too, translated to rather big differences between the central European part of Russia and, say, Turkmenistan.