[p0ints]

> Even Russia did kind of ok.

That may be true from 10 thousand miles away. Upon closer inspection, there's a huge difference in current wealth and standard of living between Russia and say Finland, while 100 years ago they were roughly the same. Not to mention the unimaginable wealth of natural resources that Russia has, which, under proper political and economic policies, could make it into a Norway-like paradise.

[crdoconnor]

>Not to mention the unimaginable wealth of natural resources that Russia has, which, under proper political and economic policies, could make it into a Norway-like paradise.

Norway wasn't "made into a paradise" by its natural resources, it was just lucky to be the sole exception unafflicted by the resource curse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

[yostrovs]

Finland was part of Russia 100 years ago, which led to another experiment comparing systems for the next 70 years. The results are always the same.

[fulafel]

Very different from slavic Russia back then though, having previously changed hands from swedish to russian empire.

[127]

And if you put the starting point of your charts to the end of communism, you will see a radical growth in the average wages and the quality of life of citizens.