Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Cold War" channel.

  1. Communism earned its condemnation.
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  2.  @panoskatrin4910  I already did. Communism earned its condemnation.
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  3. You mean to tell me that democracy as communism/socialism supposed to require to make the model legitimate ended up being the model's undoing in Mongolia? WOW!
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  4. Well, the Soviet Union earned its slander by its deeds.
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  5. You already have that. It's called the housing projects.
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  6.  @Trgn  <Russia only did it inside their territory and their own> Like Afghanistan?
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  7. But Somalia lost the Ogaden War, declined and eventually collapsed under a communist leadership that was interestingly US-backed.
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  8.  @baneofbanes  Just ask anyone from the Baltics, Eastern Europe, Central Asia or even Finland.
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  9. Both communism and fascism are offspring of socialism. And fascism's founder, Benito Mussolini, was a communist.
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  10. LOL @ Poland being an empire.
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  11. And make Atheism the religion of the land. Sure they abolished religion!
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  12. No. China copied Singapore's system.
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  13. Russia/USSR supported its fair share of puppet regimes in Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Angola, North Korea, Mongolia, East Germany.
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  14. In the gulag.
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  15.  @olliefoxx7165  And ivory towers.
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  16.  @baneofbanes  And the former Soviet bloc sought independence as soon as they could.
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  17. As one of the poorest countries in Europe.
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  18. The content-creator has no use for credibility from tankies.
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  19. And meat from other humans.
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  20. Well, socialism as with all other collectivist ideologies do not believe in individual liberty or agency and their ideas can only be achieved by brute force.
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  21.  @baneofbanes  Just like Mobutu. For a guy who claimed to be anti-communist, he idolized and ran his country like a communist.
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  22.  @NBrioDaZueraRules  But is not worthy of any worship as the state is flawed just like the average human.
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  23. While socialistic economies depend on infinite resources and cash flow wreaking havoc on the environment and the treasury often ending up adopting capitalist reforms, relying on foreign aid and/or resigning themselves to be isolated, backward and obsolete hellholes.
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  24.  @johnl5316  He was a professional protestor and lived off of his then GF. Became a property-owning millionaire from his time as state senator.
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  25.  @0000-z4z  Only because the Soviet Union embarrassed them. <They want, what Karl Marx wanted: A society where you are free of capitalism.> Which was practiced in Somalia.
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  26. Too bad it imploded.
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  27. Russia is a pioneer.
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  28. IMF: the end result of countries left bankrupt by socialist/left-wing economic policies.
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  29. Something a typical socialist would say when his/her beloved system implodes.
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  30. Unified against its will.
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  31.  @butterflies655  Despite the USSR's best attempt in 1939.
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  32. The USSR. And it's not even close.
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  33.  @blitzerblazinoah6838  And Iceland wanted out.
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  34. <People don't understand there was so much destruction wars in Yugoslavia still was respectful country decent standard they didn't rob African Asian continents > Austria didn't rob Africa or Asia either.
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  35. Plus, fascism was invented by a communist.
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  36. <seems when a country like mine is rich in resources that other countries need, you can expect this. > You can thank Justin Trudeau's carbon tax and other restrictions on production and distribution for that.
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  37. Mostly in leftist-run cities and states.
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  38. While setting the country up for future failure once the money to meet every basic human need dries up.
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  39.  @Prororo  What lack of democracy? Lack of regime bootlicks who wanted the communist system to stay?
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  40. LOL
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  41.  @Totalitarianizer  Better than the hyper-collectivism North Korea has where everyone just exist for the benefit of Kim Jong-Un and gang.
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  42. Maybe but it still doesn't change the fact that capitalism's shortcomings pale in comparison to communism's.
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  43.  @Cortesevasive  There's no such thing as free.
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  44. LOL
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  45. Not being able to afford to travel is not the same thing as not being legally allowed to travel. Being a poor American still beats being a not-completely-poor Russian any day of the week.
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  46.  @nathanstruble2177  So did another example of resource curse.
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  47.  @akosnagy387  In other words, you worked for the regime.
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  48. ROFL
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  49.  @hoxhacat8195  Somalia had all that.
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  50.  @gosuns72  Living off of Chinese handouts just like North Korea.
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  51.  @PhiksuPlantBiologist  Thanks to the US.
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  52. While setting the country up for bankruptcy.
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  53.  @fridge6668  While the hobos in China and North Korea are left to starve in the outskirts of the city.
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  54. Case in point: Ukraine.
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  55.  Basic Truths  The same IMF loans he voluntarily took along with the treasury to build his Palace Of The Parliament. <Romania was the only sovereign country in the eastern block and paid off to the IMF educate yourself> At the expense of a few thousand people he let starve and freeze to death.
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  56. @P T In all fairness, 68% of Canadians are property-owners.
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  57. This is what leftists mean by workers owning the means of production. Replace expertise with novice.
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  58. No it couldn't as it was a religion unto itself.
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  59. Everyone knows that already.
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  60. That's how North Korea does it.
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  61.  @Project_Amirani  <Something like OGAS was being implemented in Salvador Alliendes Chile called CyberSyn. But this experiment was stopped by a counter-revolution backed by CIA.> Which turned out to be a good thing in the end as post-Pinochet Chile is now one of wealthiest countries in Latin America.
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  62. And they lost a war to Finland.
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  63. Everyone already knows.
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  64. And then become exactly Margaret Thatcher talked about as an example of how it only worked when other people's money kept rolling in.
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  65.  @joseaca1010  Exactly.
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  66. @P T Yes it did. Those few "treasonous" politicians were just trying to delay the inevitable.
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  67. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  68.  @baneofbanes  Just imagine if the USSR/Russia had ice-free ports. Would have given France a run for its money.
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  69.  @SCPKing1835  In other words, Yugoslavia was a personality cult dependent on a strongman to keep it together.
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  70.  @雪狐fluffy  Pretty much.
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  71.  @mcmcmcm6520  AHH! Mexico, a one-time empire.
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  72. Khrushchev gave the Soviet Union its best years. He destroyed nothing except the egos of the Soviet military and political class.
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  73. Or competent.
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  74.  @mishapurser4439  They don't have to make themselves look less bad. They are less bad.
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  75. LOL. You know that India actually had socialism for most of its post-independence existence, right?
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  76. <attempt at an alternative system to capitalism?> That proved itself to be inefficient and even more brutal.
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  77. <and still is here in Scotland, > Thanks to English taxpayers.
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  78.  @aviralshukla15  Yes. And Atheism = Paganism 2.0
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  79. That Yugoslavia happily accepted as it had no real economy and fooled the people into believing its model was viable.
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  80.  @matheusvillela9150  The average Native reservations have no homelessness.
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  81. India already did socialism/communism with Nehru.
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  82. <Communism is a stateless, moneyless society and thus can only come about on a world scale> Through the very same imperialism capitalism is accused of.
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  83.  @007kingifrit  And he interestingly advocates for the same socialism/communism he admitted his own parents fled from.
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  84. He who feeds you owns you. (c) Thomas Sankara
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  85. And then it fell as fast as it rose.
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  86. Yet no freedom of movement as they were treated like illegal immigrants in their own country having to show papers.
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  87. Because they happened under Lenin and Stalin.
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  88. <The socialist state funded for space missions and military.> While leaving other industries to crumble bankrupting the country in the process.
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  89.  @achbanilacran2061  Mussolini who himself was a communist.
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  90. Aside from rigged elections and a decidedly lower body count for the former, there is no difference. And all communists are socialist anyway.
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  91. While socialism requires infinite resources and cash flow to sustain itself.
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  92. The biggest irony of communism is that it always seeks to become what it's trying to eradicate.
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  93. Establish itself as the default religion.
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  94. Pretty much.
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  95.  @badluck5647  It is an issue of race as Black people made up the majority in the places plagued with concentrated poverty.
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  96. Once it ran out of other people's money.
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  97.  @SCPKing1835  Yes it did. It ran out of US and Soviet money.
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  98.  @kerriwilson7732  Don't forget Albania.
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  99. And replace it with you own opium.
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  100. Yet the guy who invented the term and fascism was a socialist himself.
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  101. Yet very few of them for political reasons.
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  102.  @b.b.  <while capitalism does not provide anything for free, does not even pay fairly the workers.> And rightfully so. You want something? Get up off your butt and work. They're free to work for someone else or start their own business.
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  103. If you enjoy having a perpetually stunted economy.
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  104.  @blacklotus5953  Not really as ideology and state became one.
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  105.  @AUniqueHandleName444  LOL. Putin was part of the Soviet class.
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  106. LOL. No. They were too busy marveling at the standard of the North where their brothas and sistas migrated to en masse.
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  107.  @nikolaynovichkov166  Was that due to price-fixing and wage-suppression?
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  108. <Soviet/Russian leaders have NEVER cared for the people they were meant to serve and just take from and hurt them.> No government has ever really cared for the people they were supposedly meant to serve. And the ones that have ended up getting ousted by the very same people once the economy declined, they overstayed their welcome and/or pissed off some \body within their ranks.
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  109.  @ChristopherSobieniak  But eventually ran out of other people's money.
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  110. LOL. Cope! <If you can't get ever money to buy something, you're banned by capitalism  from owning that something.> Well, you're not entitled to it. Either produce it or buy it via work.
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  111. Communist state = dictatorship
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  112. You must be part of the Bulgarian ruling elite.
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  113. Tyranny to compensate for the economic limitations exposed by the US's military budget.
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  114. Better than pro-Communist trash.
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  115. While the USSR was the leader of the 2nd world.
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  116. Not really. Some are homeless due to their own misdeeds.
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  117.  @mikeyorkav4039  Socialists are even bigger parasites.
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  118. Or your local zoning laws.
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  119.  Australian Jackaroo  Sounds kind of like Venezuela. Chavez was in charge when oil prices were high and Maduro was in charge when oil prices collapsed.
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  120. Thanks to money stolen from Croatia and Slovenia.
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  121.  @halguy5745  Yet you have no problem with organized atheism?
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  122. What about Ontario and Quebec farmers?
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  123.  @blitzerblazinoah6838  And Central Asia.
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  124.  @brandonk.4864  Not really as with most communist regimes, there wasn't even enough bread to give out due to the methods and means used to produce said bread (and food in general) being inefficient and ineffective.
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  125. Namely those who were addicted to government handouts.
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  126.  @cowsmuggler1646  It's a surprise that the USSR didn't suffer a potato famine like Ireland.
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  127.  @michaelsalmon9832  A Black Panther terrorist?
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  128. Very much.
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  129. <Same in Romania, Ceausescu built 4 floor apartments that were given almost for free to young families> But no basic utilities, heating or consistent electricity.
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  130. Stalin killed more Ukrainians than Hitler killed Jews.
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  131. Just see Enver Hoxha.
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  132. Nope.
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  133. Well, it is said that for socialism/communism to work, it has to be WORLDWIDE.
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  134. See Romania 's final years under Ceausescu.
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  135.  @raidang  Due to lack of ice-free ports.
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  136. Until recently, Russia had the 3rd highest suicide rate in the world. It also has rather low life expectancy for men at barely 64 years.
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  137. Sounds like Cuba.
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  138. Most gays/lesbians were White and considered average American despite having to keep their orientation secret.
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  139. Sure, tankie!
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  140. Because Russia moved a portion of its population there to dilute the local demographics and forcibly annex them if necessary.
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  141. Exactly.
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  142. Ditto for Cuba.
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  143.  @badluck5647  Agreed.
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  144. <sanctions in the first place!> LOL. Communist countries struggled due to being inefficient and inadequate requiring outside aid, not sanctions.
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  145.  @sciencemanguy  Living off of Syria's largesse.
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  146.  @mikeyorkav4039  Only because the people who run those nations are family and friends of the old communist guard just like Russia after the Soviet collapse.
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  147. You can be independent if you're willing to put up with being isolated, backward and inconsequential.
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  148. Very much.
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  149. Until they weren't once commodity prices hit rock-bottom and the USSR ran into shortages.
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  150.  @mr.congeniality8803  <infinitely better agricultural situations that, in a lot of cases, made the country entirely self-sufficient> LOL. So infinitely better that it led to production declines, shortages and eventual famine having to import food to compensate. <But you can't put the blame of left-wing ideologies failures solely on themselves> Yes you can for Tanzania, Ethiopia, North Korea and most of Eastern Europe.
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  151. Just like North Korea.
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  152.  @goodcomrade2949  Taking orders from Moscow be they: East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland or Czechoslovakia.
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  153.  @KingDanny9  While the USSR let the poor starve in their apartments if they didn't freeze to death first due to a lack of heating. <instead of spending money on wars all the time.> The same wars that allow Scandinavia, the Persian Gulf, etc. to cheap put on their military expenditures in favor of their social safety nets.
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  154.  @JSKR6  Namely ordinary folk.
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  155.  @simbamartens7192  No. Capitalist countries like the USA. And since when was the Congo capitalist? Or Afghanistan?
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  156. Thanks to Western aid.
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  157. <but Other countries would rather focus on making sure everyone has necessities and things they NEED > Yet they can't produce those in an adequate or efficient manner having to either import them or do without.
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