Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "How the Internet was Stolen" video.

  1.  @vernie7882  Man, like it or not... they advanced the entire Russian Empire into the 21st century. We take for century Russia's current level of development (which isn't super high anyway), but there is a very decent chance that, under Tsars, Russia would be much like Cuba under Batista had been: fabulously wealthy in a few areas (Moscow/SpB/Kazan triangle, Vladivostok, Transcaucasia) and a winter ghetto outside of those. I suppose many eastern Europeans would smugly say that it's already like that, but at least there are some basic amenities (electricity, housing, education) which the Tsar would have balked at giving to his subjects. If there is one thing communism is good for, it is throwing off colonial shackles (Africa, SE Asia, Cuba) and rapidly industrializing into tertiary industries. Otherwise they'd all be agricultural countries, ripe for Western 'investment' until the end of time. It has been decades since the US committed itself to 'investing' in poverty in Africa, yet it was China that spooked the US into actually building infrastructure there, instead of just sending highschoolers there on mission trips or Boomers on safari tours.
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