every argument in favor of letting China conquer Taiwan is also an argument for letting Britain reconquer Ireland. it's just if the British were to threaten that we would recognize it as psychotically unacceptable.
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Why are we discarding the increases in life expectancy, literacy, living standards, calories intake, etc. that occurred under the USSR's "soviet boot"? Are we supposed to pretend these material facts never happened?
I'm not, though one wonders if those gains were worth the Gulag, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, and the failure of collective agriculture literally everywhere it was ever tried.
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But if you look at the global data, the decline of extreme poverty both in absolute terms and in percentage terms either accelerates or stays steady after the collapse of the USSR. The USSR's value-over-replacement on poverty is 0 or negative.
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The holodomor's historicity is dubious, and the gulags were not death camps. American prisoners are providing slave labor in the US right this very moment; whence the next Solzhenitsyn to decry this? I'm not an expert on agriculture, but there were *more* famines pre-USSR.
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"holodomor's historicity is dubious" And we're done. No it isn't and shame on you for implying that it is.
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