Message from @Death Strike's Bat
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they're not stupid
basically they starved the peasants to feed the cities.
yes
well mao was more just pure idiocy
no they are more conected with their instinct or something like that
stalin was exporting grain from a starving country
no it is that they see how agriculture works
firsthand
and realize what is up
i think it was to pay technology from USA?
the USSR was exporting grain
to fund industrialization
yh, but remember that they had signed contracts with the ford i think
the thing was WW1 and the Russian Civil War had destroyed peasant agriculture in RUssia proper
they bought a ton of stuff
ironically from the capitalists countries
when tsarist russia was slowly industrializing in it's own inefficient way
as the largest agricultural exporter in europe
but everything they exported was a commodity
and not specialized crops
or tomaotes. russia is a potato stan
china finally industrialized the right way in the deng xiaoping era
SLOWLY
yup
Deng really suffered all the evils of communism
china is fucked now as 1. it can't raise the standard of living much more
too much people
their labor already costs too much for totally mindless industries
and they have a rust belt
as it's easier to build a new steel plant than upgrade an old one
which is what happened in the USA and europe. USA rules for specialty steels
the japanese built new plants making better steel
chinese steel sucks
indian steel is minutely better
ussr made steel with 1930s tech
the usa had 40s-50s tech
the usa was the only country in ww2 that had a mechanized army
ussr was not mechanized but could assemble the stuff the usa sent them
the german and japanese armies were not mechanized
the british were sligtly