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  1. Exactly. Same for the USSR after Khrushchev did away with most of Stalin's policies. Also India.
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  2.  @PSYCHOpaty4  <You don't need to live in socialist countries to see their benefits,> Whatever benefits they had were often short-lived as they weren't sustainable without tyranny or foreign aid.
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  3.  @slimefarmdude9635  The US sanctions weren't imposed until 2017, 3 years after Venezuela collapsed.
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  4. Socialism/communism = state-sponsored slavery.
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  5. Inequality is natural. People are not the same in ability, aspiration, etc.
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  6.  @PSYCHOpaty4  Yet socialism always seems to find a way to make capitalists out of people.
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  7.  @malogibeaux4946  But the Nazis were still socialist as they were collectivist, supported state intervention in the economy if not outright central planning among other things.
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  8.  @socire72  Much of the continent of Africa is still dealing with the fallout of socialism and siding with the USSR in the Cold War.
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  9.  @logangonzalez-patton3121  Not all socialists are communist, but all communists are socialist.
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  10.  @DaveSmith-u4z  Yet per capita among developed countries, the US isn't in the top 10 highest in homelessness. But New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden are.
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  11.  @zupnanazwa  Exactly!
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  12.  @SatchelChannel  And you must be the offspring of a union worker she fired back in the day.
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  13. The CCP and Xi Jinping are the oligarchs in China.
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  14.  @socire72  Only because the USSR propped it up.
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  15.  @realdragao6367  And no one cares if you don't see it, because they're busy dying to get in if not already enjoying the benefits of living in a capitalist country despite the flaws. And since when did socialism care about individual rights? Socialism is a collectivist ideal in which individual rights are violently suppressed if not outright denied in favor of "the greater good."
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  16. Seychelles. Yet they abandoned it.
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  17.  @kadanseward3022  <Socialist African countries did very well until the US decides to put a stop to it.> Not Ethiopia. Or Somalia. Or Madagascar. Or Tanzania. Or Benin. Or the other Congo which still enjoys Western and Russian support.
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  18.  @Death_Media_incorporated  There is nothing capitalist about Turkmenistan. It's a post-communist kleptocracy just like its former Russian master. <Argentina, Greece,> Both brought to their knees by socialist leaders. Ditto for Jamaica. <Somalia, > A post-communist anarchy.
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  19.  @Death_Media_incorporated  The French ruled the other Congo, not the DRC which by the way was ruled by a Maoist as he wasn't really anti-communist as he was anti-USSR. Plus, it had no problem supporting its communist leader Denis Sassou-Nguesso.
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  20.  @PSYCHOpaty4  Only after Khrushchev did away with most of Stalin's policies.
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  21.  @vebdaklu  <It wasn't like that in Yugoslavia, people were much safer, happier, there was local industry and production, recognition in the wider world > Yugoslavia was a personality cult propped up by Soviet and US aid. Once other people's money stopped rolling in and Tito died, it was a wrap.
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  22. Socialism bankrupted Sweden in the 1970's.
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  23.  @bigmannnyeah  Only because of Syria's largesse. By the way, this is about actual countries, not regions of such.
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  24.  @IGetIntoArgumentsForFun.67  Then why do 100 00's want out?
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  25.  @jinglebells-bv2lw  Because the formal economies are over-regulated if not outright centrally planned.
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  26. All socialist states are de-facto kleptocracies.
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  27.  @NaymitMayne  Democracy was the USSR's final nail in the coffin. Ditto for Albania.
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  28.  @Taskforce-vf5ii  Bet it communist Cuba or socialist Nicaragua.
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  29.  @kadanseward3022  Cuba is not working. And hundreds of thousands of people want out.
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  30.  @SMCwasTaken  Mussolini, the OG fascist was a communist.
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  31.  @bingbong8239  Not really. Hitler was every bit a socialist and was once friends with Stalin.
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  32.  @bingbong8239  To the benefit of friends and family of Nazi Party members. That "privatization?"
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  33. By Marx's and Lenin's own admissions, yes.
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  34.  @socire72  No. Cuba was way more prosperous pre-Revolution as it was one of the wealthiest countries in the Western Hemisphere and people were dying to move in. The loss of USSR aid did far more damage to Cuba and North Korea's economies than the sanctions as they no longer had anything to make up for the domestic industries that were just plain inefficient, ineffective and inadequate.
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  35.  @aleksaa24  Most of those countries you named all did socialism to rather disastrous results prompting major economic reforms or resigning themselves to kleptocracy.
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  36.  @vebdaklu  ,<Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela still stand.> Thanks to US remittances, the black market and Chinese aid. <Ex-yugoslav states are in a state much much worse than Yugoslavia ever was (same goes for ex-Soviet countries - clearly, capitalism didn't deliver on it's promise to help their development, has it?).> All of which are run by ex-members, beneficiaries and descendants of the old communist guard responsible for running those countries into the ground. And Serbia seething, because it can't live off of Croatia and Slovenia like it used to.
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  37. Fascism was founded by communists.
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  38. If socialism is as self-reliant as it boasts about being, why does it blame sanctions for its inability to prosper?
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  39. Plus the Venezuelan people voluntarily gave up their right to bear arms and defend themselves to Chavez in 2009.
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  40. No toilet paper. Everyone a 6-figure earner yet can't buy much due to empty shelves and hyper-inflation.
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  41.  @vebdaklu  Yet in every other revolution, the liberators became the very oppressors they ousted replacing one oppressive social order with another, namely their own.
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  42. At the expense of Central Asia, the Baltics and Eastern Europe who all wanted out.
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  43. At the expense of 10 000's of people he had freeze to death in their apartments when he turned off the heat to save on operating costs.
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  44.  @socire72  <Also, they weren't conquered. They were apart of the USSR and very willing. > Yes they were. Hence the outsourcing of ethnic Russians by the Kremlin to dilute the demographics and the conquered's right to sovereignty without military and political reprisals from Moscow. <Literally every single republic of the USSR voted to remain within it. > Namely the Soviet puppets who ran them.
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  45.  @malogibeaux4946  Since when was Somalia capitalist? Somalia is yet another country destroyed by socialism just like its fellow once-Soviet-backed neighbor Ethiopia.
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  46. Yes they are judging by the same results they produced.
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  47.  @socire72  <Socialism is no private property (property used to extract money from others - like a factory, or a slave plantation)> But socialism is state property. Any and everything belongs to the government. Like Cambodia under Pol Pot. <and a dictatorship of the proletariat, where the government is completely controlled by the working class,>> That will vote to sacrifice long-term viability for short-term comfortable living. Who cares if future generations end up having to pay for it? This was what the West had with the Boomer generation. Millennials and Generation Z inheriting the debt.
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  48.  @seabscoot  Because some manage what they have wisely while others waste it. All the money in the world can't fix stupid.
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  49.  @Leonard-td5rn  Just ask a Canadian.
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  50.  @IGetIntoArgumentsForFun.67  Not really. Peru is yet another far-left hell hole.
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