They never mattered, at least a long as you've been alive. The "Soviet statistics" discussion at the start of the article was an amazing example of Western capi

They never mattered, at least a long as you've been alive. The "Soviet statistics" discussion at the start of the article was an amazing example of Western capitalistic propaganda, because the same nonsense with statistics is also out of control in the West, just not so mind numbingly obvious. The USA is the king of propaganda, far in advance of all rivals.