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Meanwhile in the real world, Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span

Meanwhile in the real world, Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world: * https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016/ https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-prop... * https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016-wid-world-working-paper-201710/ https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequa... USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%: * http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm * http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm * http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni... * https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition: * https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R00... * https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640 https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640 USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960: * https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ * https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996: * https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.p... * https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm

thriftwy 3y ago
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- yogthos 3y ago
  Nice try, vast majority of the country was completely unindustrialized, and there was a huge wave of industrialization after the revolution.
- dang 3y ago
  Ideological flamewar comments are not ok on HN and we eventually ban accounts that post them. You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185109). If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
  - thriftwy 3y ago
    I can see how you have flagged three people who opposed to it with reasonable comments, but you did not flag the original page-long Communist copypasta. Which makes me think that, amusingly, the HN moderator dang is an open communist. It's pride time of the year, after all, so whom am I to judge.
    - dang 3y ago
      Flags are mostly from users, although I probably flagged some of the ones in this thread, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195570, which were blatant rule violations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178586 wasn't nearly as blatant a violation, though litanies of links supporting pre-existing agendas do eventuate in moderation scoldings. I replied to that commenter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207435. We're equal-opportunity moderators, but I agree with you that dang being a secret communist (let alone an open one) is pretty amusing.

thriftwy 3y ago

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yogthos 3y ago
Nice try, vast majority of the country was completely unindustrialized, and there was a huge wave of industrialization after the revolution.
dang 3y ago
Ideological flamewar comments are not ok on HN and we eventually ban accounts that post them. You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185109). If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- thriftwy 3y ago
  I can see how you have flagged three people who opposed to it with reasonable comments, but you did not flag the original page-long Communist copypasta. Which makes me think that, amusingly, the HN moderator dang is an open communist. It's pride time of the year, after all, so whom am I to judge.
  - dang 3y ago
    Flags are mostly from users, although I probably flagged some of the ones in this thread, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195570, which were blatant rule violations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178586 wasn't nearly as blatant a violation, though litanies of links supporting pre-existing agendas do eventuate in moderation scoldings. I replied to that commenter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207435. We're equal-opportunity moderators, but I agree with you that dang being a secret communist (let alone an open one) is pretty amusing.