Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Chinese Spy Balloon Shot Down By F-22 Raptor Over North America" video.

@lutscher7979 Oh, the economy may not be, but the Party and State that runs the nation is. The Private and Public Sector are two separate things. Only thing is the CCP released, and took the handcuffs off the private sector and opened up the economy for the "State's" Benefit. Lenin did something similar with his New Economic Policy when he re-privatized Agriculture after the disaster that was the 1921/22 Famine. Nikita Khrushchev also set up policies to repair the damage of the Stalin era which he re-collectivized agriculture which lead to two large famines even worse than the 1921/22 famine. By the time Khrushchev took power the USSR still had not achieved Pre-WWI Russian Imperial Grain statistics by Tonnage meanwhile the population had risen since then in spite of the world wars. Being Grain was the primary food making up about 80% of the Russian diet even by the 1980s, it's a clear sign how much of a failure the Lenin and Stalin eras were on the Soviet Union. Khrushchev pushed a policy that encouraged farmers even on collective farms to put side land for their own personal use/production, ie private farming. By the end of the Soviet Union roughly 80% of Food Production in the USSR was done in the private sector vs the collective farm system. Which shows how much of a failure collective farms just ended up being in the USSR. When both Lenin and Post Stalin leaders realized private farming was more bountiful. So when China decides to take the handcuffs off the private sector it's magically no longer Communist? So I guess the leaders of the USSR including Lenin were not Communist either.
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