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by d8421l01vv4r 3609 days ago
> The part of history that he emphasized to me, was that in spite of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killing tens of millions of people, communism was still much better than what came before. There was constant famine before communism.

Most countries in the world did significantly better post-WW2 than before. No thanks to their leaders, but thanks to technological progress.