Alcoholism, drug use, rampant illness due to a nonexistent privatized network, corporations destroying workers protections, suicide, infant mortality rates, childbirth deaths….
Plenty of reasons to see why this is the case.
The collapse of the Soviet Union set humanity back decades of if not centuries in development. Hopefully the Sun will rise on a new torchbearer for humanity, in the form of a Chinese communist state.
Not counting the short time death toll, restitution of capitalism in Russia had almost the same magnitute and severity of impact as… world war II.
In peacetime. It is probaly the worst and biggest manmade non-war catastrophe ever in history.
And socialism rebuild the country after the most devastating war ever in 10 years, while capitalism couldn’t do it from it’s own establishment event even in 30.
Yeah, it was probably the biggest human tragedy of the 20th century on a scale most people don’t really comprehend.
Instead westerners turn it into jokes
I bet it’s not gonna be as funny when this sort of thing starts happening in Europe in the near future as the economy continues to unravel.
They’ll still blame us for that
They already are, the whole narrative in the west is that the economy going to shit is somehow Russia’s fault.
“That’s because they don’t have our values!” - smug eurolib
🤣
Couldn’t or haven’t bothered trying?
Both.
Capitalism is very inefficient system, so they needed 30 years to reach the outside economic stats like real GDP from before the fall. And i can just guess it is still not real because it includes bubbles which didn’t exist in socialism, so they couldn’t really.
And they of course did not bother trying because some of the most important for socialism things, like equality, education, healthcare etc etc aren’t on capitalist checklist at all, so they never went back and in fact even worsened in that 30 years.
Capitalism in Action.
Libs be like: “Akschually it’s always been like that, but THE REGIME WAS HIDING THE TRUTH!!!111”
I hate when they use the word collapse, as if it was socialism breaking down by itself and not capitalism undemocratic restitution what destroyed those countries
