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by Godel_unicode
2599 days ago
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I think a better comparison is East and West Germany. You might also want to revisit your assumption that the US in 1917 wasn't an agrarian economy, given that the majority of Americans worked on farms between the World Wars. Also, Baku (joined the USSR into 1920) produced over half the world's oil at that time. |
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About 30% at the start of that period through 15% at the end.[1]
[1] https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/II_Insights_QEB_Impact-A... first chart. And that's workforce, not "people"