• infinitevalence@discuss.online
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      3 months ago

      *removed externally hosted image* *removed externally hosted image*

      Opps, turns out creating a bunch of charts without fixing the value makes life in the USSR look amazing.... Only no, no it was not. Go back make all of your charts again, but this time dont use relative change or log to make things look like they were closer or better.

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Oh man, what did the US and UK have that the USSR didn't? That's right, a giant fucking empire grinding hundreds of millions of third world slaves into the dirt.

        And yet, even without that the USSR was growing so much faster it would have caught up to and surpassed them eventually - until they couped it, destroyed it and ravaged its people and economy.

      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Are you legitimately suggesting that the USSR and the UK/US started off on the same level of footing? Is history a series of static snapshots unrelated to what came before or what will come afterwards to you?

        You're deeply unserious.