Message from @meratrix
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No
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They obviously didn't
i mean the data directly contradicts you
What data?
they overtook those countries in terms of gdp per capita and had disproportionately high standards of living for their level of development
China isn't a rich country by any stretch of the imagination
It's also really oppressed
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menatrix which part of that document backs up your claim
it's huge
See? Less serious.
bottom of this section on page 6
are you referring to the soviet gnp per worker being 38% of that of the us
The soviet union was unable to take utilize it’s natural advantages.
is that what you're referring to or not
I do not believe that is what this document refers to.
i just wanna know if that's the data point you were referencing
What are people actually actually conversing about?
I referring to this whole document.
not exactly sure. I think they're trying to make the claim that the eastern bloc was economically succesful
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I actually don't know about that specific thing at all...
mera when you say "Russia asked the US to come over and analyze what went wrong with their economy after the USSR fell, and it was found that they were operating something like at half the economic strength." surely there is a specific part of the document that backs up that claim
i said that eastern bloc countries grew faster than capitalist countries on average
Is it an arguement of growth?
according to what crude propaganda?
I was couldn’t remember what exactly number were, so I said that to bring attention to it assuming you would ask for the source, which I provided.
if they grew faster, they would have overtaken capitalist countries. They didn't.
Such a worldview should have shattered long ago, why are you clinging to it?
plenty of "experts" were not even the slightest bit critical of data coming out of the USSR. It's like they never knew propaganda was an actual thing.
I'm pretty pro-capitalist in a lot of ways, but the speed of growth if a stupid argument :/ I don't get what you are arguing about.
and people regurgitate the same tired nonsense to this day
if anyone points out a flaw in their logic, they bury you in old propaganda and gish-gallop away
no wonder people grow tired of talking to someone like that
they are the ones who brought economic growth up
when you point out the horrors that stupid socialist policies lead to, the millions of deaths, it's whataboutism instantly to preserve the delusion.