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Originally Posted by Marc Allen 242
Understand, I'm not disputing the descriptions given of modern Russia. The original question wasn't about "modern" Russia but about Stalinism v. capitalism.
Stalinism doesn't compare to the modern Russian experience of evolving state controlled economic planning nor was it some fanciful Marxist experiment run awry, it was totalitarianism. One can't refer to conditions in Russia today without recognizing that there's a lot of bodies left in the wake of the OGPU/NKVD.
By my reckoning, the government that invokes the fewer forced labor camps, famines, and purges (Yagoda, Zinovev, Kamenev...plus several million others) would be preferable.
If you want a discussion about the merits of modern Russian statism, I'm open to that. Russia is a land of increasing opportunity and resource. The transition of the Russian economy is surely evolutionary and not complete but let's not talk about the results of reform and revolution without recognizing context.
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OK! You are right that this other topics. Sorry!But I was not talking about Stalin's regime. It was on the later of the USSR after a 50-g of the year. But the Economic System Was close to ideal for people, not for those who wanted to be in control. Such a system I don't recall the Price decrease in 7 times. Where declined even prices? I think no where other than in the USSR. People can live in prosperity. Cheap high-quality food, transport, free education, natural medicine. I think it's excellent. Let us consider school - In each school was a form. It is good for society, because people lived and live in different ways, were as rich and less, the form allows to level them equally, without envy, while the education and moral qualities of the people were much higher than today.
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