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> The Soviets didn't have the money or human resources to do the things the US did SK is one of the biggest economies in the world, NK is literally starving to
by Natsu 4y ago
> The Soviets didn't have the money or human resources to do the things the US did
SK is one of the biggest economies in the world, NK is literally starving to death right now. I don't think some US intervention decades ago really explains why NK isn't able to build much of anything, or why their allies still can't help them even manage to feed themselves.
- woodruffw 4y agoNK doesn't have that many excuses in 2023, but that wasn't really the point (or even claimed) anywhere in the comment. The claim is much simpler: if you're looking to compare the US and USSR during the postwar period, you need to consider the raw resources they had available. The US triumphed, and achieved a wide range of humanitarian successes in the process, but the why of that boils down to an intact workforce and a roaring industrial base, not some definitive dustup between Communism (tm) and Capitalism (tm).
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoIndeed this was my original point way above, though I would postfix it by saying, as I did also, above, that the Soviet planning system was a failure and Stalin a tyrant. The original claim of TFA was just pure nonsense. You can't explain a Russian's lack of a car in the rubble of 1948 Stalingrad based on "Soviet communism bad, American capitalism good" You can probably make that claim in 1975, though. Unfortunately people are not reading that far down into my comment to get the distinction.