points by throwaway27448 1 day ago | 0 comments
> Citizens of USSR were poorer than their counterparts in the west
Well that's because we're a bunch of greedy bitches who never learned how to play nice with the other kids—capitalism. It would take a hell of a lot more wealth generation for humanity to justify this kind of economic dysfunction.
[–] reliabilityguy 1 day ago
[–] throwaway27448 1 day ago
I mean we made something far worse than the gulag with the american prison system (basically, the punitive theory of rape). It seems we just became all the evil that the soviet system was allegedly supposed to cause from the western perspective 50 years ago.
[–] reliabilityguy 18 hours ago
Yes, taking the whole families in the middle of night and sending them to Siberia to build railroads is exactly the same as American prison, access to attorney, etc.
Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it