[valuearb]

You forgot the tens of millions killed deliberately by the USSR itself, fir one example.

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

Every first world country went from a backwards agricultural society to a far more advanced one during that century. Look up the dust bowl or even better the state of US agriculture during the early 20s.

Without central planning, the people’s of the Soviet republics would not just have been free, they would have grown wealthier

[vkou]

> You forgot the tens of millions killed deliberately by the USSR itself, fir one example.

Please keep in mind that the current, mainstream political Western discourse is seriously contemplating whether or not we should re-open, sacrificing a few million people on the altar of economic growth.

[DetroitThrow]

This really put the discourse in perspective for me, but I suppose we've made decisions like this every so often in the course of governance for a few decades now. I hope we continue to pursue all fundamental rights described by "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness".