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Stalin rapidly industrialized Russia in a fraction of time it took the US. They had a marxism that was less than ideal and they became the serfs that flew in space and we are still bumming rides to space with their old shit because they're better at it than us.
They because a world super power on par with US. Only an really stupid person, and really stupid, thinks the system that created a super powerful, first space farring nation, was a failure.
Like a world class stupid person.
"But they didn't have 17 different disposable shaving razors to choose from".
"Marxism less than ideal"
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Stalin and other party members had ordered that kulaks were "to be liquidated as a class"[19] and so they became a target for the state. The richer, land-owning peasants were labeled "kulaks" and were portrayed by the Bolsheviks as class enemies, which culminated in a Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, and executions of large numbers of the better-off peasants and their families in 1929–1932
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Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Professor of History at Michigan State University, states that Ukraine was hit particularly hard by grain quotas which were set at levels which most farms could not produce. The 1933 harvest was poor, coupled with the extremely high quota level, which led to starvation conditions. The shortages were blamed on kulak sabotage, and authorities distributed what supplies were available only in the urban areas. The loss of life in the Ukrainian countryside is estimated at approximately 5 million people.[30]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333The low estimate:
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It has been estimated that between 3.3[7] and 3.9 million died in Ukraine[8] and 2 million (40% of all Kazakhs) died in Kazakhstan.[9][10][11][12]]
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