Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Did Wall Street fund FDR, Hitler and the Bolsheviks? Looking at Prof. Antony C Sutton's theory" video.

There isn't a Socialist regime that didn't have the backing of foreign finance save for Cube and North Korea for political reasons they were Isolated from western investments. USSR throughout the 20s and 30s had a lot of foreign investors. What harmed the USSR and China the most was their voluntary efforts to make themselves economy self sufficient which no country on Earth including the USA has or will ever achieve. Most foreign investment went toward industries that produced more industrial goods so industry can grow rapidly. So much so in the USSR Stalin started forcing women to work in factories as there wasn't enough men, and then slashed wages for both to basically tie them to the jobs. Yet, all they were still doing was producing more industrial goods. So it created a cycle of growth that citizens did not benefit from. They were not making washing machines and toasters figuratively speaking but more drill presses, more lathes, etc but those didn't put food on the table nor made people's lives better. Made those juicy GDP figures look good and that was it. It's why the USSR had more tanks and planes in 1940 than multiple of it's nearest rivals combined yet ultimately worthless as all they cared about was statistics. Not whether they had spare parts, fuel, maintenance personnel to maintain them, trained pilots to fly them etc etc. Most Soviet armored divisions were lost not in combat in 1941 but from no fuel ammunition, spare parts, meanwhile the Red Airforce was grounded and wiped out on the runways. Like the drill press and lathe all thar mattered was numbers produced and that self destructive cycle.
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