Message from @el pebble
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They declassify many things
if anything they would keep the real info classified
so far you have given a couple wikipedia graphs and an acknowledgement about manipulation
not Wikipedia
yes
No
the graph was wikipedia
lol
No it wasn’t
it is clearly wikipedia
because i say it is
It’s a well known fact these regimes skew the data
kind of like how you argue
yeah but the topic is different here
as in I gave you a source
the CIA classifies data that it knows is wrong is a heavy claim for you
well no shit
The CIA has been wrong
the source you gave makes the data being valid even more exemplary
???
unless a cornell paper is wrong too
because your presupposition of skewing
Hail Satan
Yes because they didn’t know it would be skewed
“Shouldn’t we trust the official Soviet data?
The CIA begins their analysis by taking the official data and correcting it. Birman then corrects CIA data. The Soviets themselves admitted that some of the data was fabricated,”
The fact is the Soviet Union lied about many things including gdp growth
The same can be said about other authoritarian regimes
Anyways even if it WERE true
High quality diet =/= high calorie consumption
Literally this could be the case ,
Monday:
What’s for dinner? All the potatoes you can eat
Tuesday
What’s for dinner? All the potatoes you can eat
Wednesday
What’s for dinner? All the potatoes you can eat
Thursday
What’s for dinner? All the potatoes you can eat
Friday
What’s for dinner? All the potatoes you can eat
People lived like shit but the GDP was absurd
happens when you have huge aounts of territory and huge amounts of expendable lives
GDP PPP per capita for ussr was third world
Like Brazil now has a higher calorie intake than Sweden
not a measure for quality of life if you ask me
But this is all the case if the data isn’t skewed
Which it is
-> USSR managed to produce and compete with the US economy during its time, it was literally a powerhouse of GDP
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