Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "How did PERU GO WRONG? The great PROMISE of LATIN AMERICA - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1.  @cypher5910  Just bear in mind- both China and Russia were agrarian backwaters before their communist revolutions. In the span of a single lifetime, Russia went communist- and went from peasants, to sending a man into space. Not to mention public healthcare in increased literacy by 10fold. It's not all black and white.
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  2.  @bigmedge  Ah yes, the 100 bazillion argument. Brilliant. I agree, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao's famines were horrible. But that's not what Marx laid out in any of his texts. Famine wasn't part of the revolution, either Stalin did that on purpose (not a Marxist idea) or it just happened, still not a part of Marxism Mao on the other hand was a complete idiot, forcing urban workers back onto farms was a horrible idea. We can agree there. Now, what are you talking about with stolen tech? Can you give sources? Space travel had a long history in Russia, even dating back to Tsarist stories. It had a strong place in the culture. Sergei Korolev was given free reign under the Soviet space program, and the Russians made it there first. What exactly was stolen, and are you forgetting that the space race started because the Soviets launched Sputnik? The Americans had no plans at the time, there was nothing to steal. And how would the Soviets have made it there first if the Americans already had the tech to do it? It sounds to me like you're either making excuses, or you're confusing the space program with the nuclear program.
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