• Shrike502
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    They developed not just in peace, but in power and they squandered all that protecting wealth and preventing their people from having a life unfamiliar to poverty and precarity.

    Are you talking about USSR or any other period of Russian history?

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      Im talking about the west. For all their dominance and colonialism; they have very little to show for it but unhappy legions of the working class.