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From the book "Stalin" the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo

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[–] SimulatedLiberalism@hexbear.net 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (69 children)

I will remind you that the USSR restored its economy to pre-war standards in just 5 years, after losing 27 million people and incalculable cost of destruction, while keeping pensions and social safety nets intact, without relying on foreign aid and investments like the Marshall Plan, and without degrading workers’ rights and wages.

There is not a single country in the history of humanity that can even remotely approach this level of economic and social achievements. None.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The DPRK after the Korean War had incredibly fast growth iirc

[–] SimulatedLiberalism@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure about DPRK but Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China all had incredible growth at some points but none came even remotely close to the economic growth of USSR from 1929-1955 under Stalin’s Five-Year Plans.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

The DPRK had a rapid recovery (thanks to its allies), but then went into a catastrophic crash in the '90s after the USSR was destroyed.

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