Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "How Communism Nearly Starved Vietnam" video.

  1.  @axelNodvon2047  Very true, but Russia has always looked to developing the Asian part. This became a priority in the lead up to WW2, and was even the case in the 19th century.
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  2. Imagine the PRC without the PR bit.
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  3.  @ahndeux  I'm sorry you had to go through that. The trouble is that I hear young westerners endorsing this system and saying, "it hasn't been tried properly yet." I wonder how much more suffering people have to go through to prove it doesn't work.
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  4.  @danghoangluong2942  I can think of a few factors. Here are some others I didn't mention: * Corruption on a massive scale. * Desertification and destruction of Aral Sea; other environmental disaster. * Western radio, and even TV, being listened to by people in the Communist bloc. * The expense of maintaining such a large military. * Bad trading deals with certain poor countries. * Better quality western goods getting into their market.
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  5.  @danghoangluong2942  Sort of. The War in Afghanistan also helped bring down the USSR. (Along with Solidarity in Poland, the Chernobyl disaster and the computing gap.)
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  6. Terrible times. I hope you remind westerners of the cost that this system had upon people like yourself.
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  7.  @ahndeux  Yes, I agree with all that. Unfortunately there are attempts to roll out this system internationally. Some of the western leaders have been admiring the PRC, and its hybrid system, and many western youths like the philosophy.... One very PRC trait we see in the west now is how profit is private and debt is public. Many companies make money from state-owned infrastructure but the costs go to the public. Even Elon Musk is in on that game. Another PRC trait we see emerging elsewhere is their "social credit" system which is being introduced slowly.
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  8.  @Asianometry  The Russian Far East and its relationships with its neighbours would be interesting. They have the oddest relationship with North Korea of any of its three bordering countries.
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  9. After it dropped the uglier aspects of M.ism.
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  10. Or the Soviet Union. Forgot that one, didn't you?
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  11. Yet youngsters in the west are now in love with it. "It's never been tried properly..."
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  12.  @vin5021  Deng's plans were not much like Singapore. For one, Singapore has to contend with limited land area and no empire. Deng took a very different route from Russia - greed has entered the equation openly but central planning is still there. Beijing continues to issue Five Year Plans.
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  13.  @Sundara229  Greenland is technically North American, but for most purposes, no, since it is so isolated and not part of the continent.
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  14.  @leezhieng  No, buddy, much worse. Some of the C. induced ones make the Bengal Famine look like a picnic. Whataboutery is no defence for it.
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  15.  @西岚箱子  India has not succeeded in killing off seventy million of its citizens in artificial famines. Also fewer Gulags.
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  16.  @西岚箱子  Whataboutery isn't a valid answer. What's so funny about Mao Tse Tung starving and murdering innocent people? Probably some of your relatives too. Whataboutery is just deflection. Mao is the BIGGEST MASS MURDERER IN HUMAN HISTORY. Bigger than Stalin or Genghis Khan. Bigger than the British. Anyone who idolises Mao should hang their head in shame. p.s. I'm not an Anglo-Saxon.
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  17.  @leezhieng  Slave labour is cheaper... which is used in some of those factories. Stop enabling it and the vile, anti-human system which has created it. Unless of course, you are a 50 Cent guy, in which case, I recommend you don't criticise Beijing for the sake of your family or yourself.
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  18.  @leezhieng  In India you can speak out. In China they shove you in a death camp.
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  19.  @jerryle379  I wasn't referring to that, I was referring to the doctrines of the movements German father, KM. But I didn't want to set off the automatic filters by spelling the word out.
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  20. Central planning caused this and is now being introduced worldwide. Look at the past couple of years - what have we seen internationally from it? Forcible introduction of ID and goods shortages.
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  21. "An economic miracle like Korea" - Pyongyang is also part of Korea.
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