@dyinggirl yes they do. A Keynesian economy is not a Marxist economy.

@basilfawlty89 *facepalm* Please read this entire conversation all-through. You have misunderstood. It's sections of politics we are talking of. SECTIONS.

@dyinggirl No it really isn't "sections of politics" we're talking about. You tried to call the USSR socialist because the acronym contains the word "socialist." That was your entire argument. Which means that Nazi Germany was also socialist, and that North Korea is a democratic republic.

@DownTheRabbitHole And you must be relying on nonsensical statements to deflect from your support of one of the most bloodthirsty, murderous, oppressive governments in history.

Let me guess, next you'll claim Venezuela has the most amazing economy ever.

@QuixoticSoul Georgians are some of the most impressive dancers in the world.

@DownTheRabbitHole No, Georgians were just operators, they had a reputation for cultivating connections and getting shit done. And nobody had it easy under Stalin.

Anyway, RFSR was consistently #4 in individual consumer income and general quality of life, nor did it hoard federal investment.

The Baltics lead the way on both, strangely enough.

@helenS I don't need to, I've had family starve to death in those famines - in Siberia and Ukraine.

What of it?

@QuixoticSoul It was just meant as a comment on "not all that went with it was bad."

@helenS A famine in the 1930s (the last one, btw - they were a frequent cyclical occurrence up to then) means that everything that went with the USSR was bad? Ok.

@DownTheRabbitHole commients

@Cierzo Because they were such good dancers!