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Wh1zz | 5 years ago

See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.

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Wh1zz|5 years ago

> See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.

Also, rights and stuff

dastx|5 years ago

You wouldn't call a president that by all means takes from the poor, and gives it to the rich, to himself, and to children as corrupt? How about many, many senators who are doing the exact same thing? How about a prime minister that does the same?

There is just as much corruption in the developed world as there is in ex-Soviet countries.

dnautics|5 years ago

I feel like taking from the poor and giving to cronies is a thing that also happened under communism (and a good chunk of contemporary 'socialist' states, and to a less horrifying extent, gas and water socialisms like Western Europe). This is a generally predictable outcome of state-led socialism, as predicted long before actual implementation of state socialism, by early socialists like Benjamin Tucker and others like Bastiat in the mid 19th century.

coldtea|5 years ago

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h91wka|5 years ago

Are they? Russia, for example, is neo-feudalist, not capitalist.

h91wka|5 years ago

You confuse cause and effect of the soviet block collapse.

coliveira|5 years ago

From what I see, corruption in capitalist countries is rampant.

asjw|5 years ago

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asjw|5 years ago

To be clear I'm Italian, I don't think life in Italy is worse than in many other western countries, I would say it's generally better, especially for the medium-low income segment of the population

PCI (the Italian communist party) obtadined regularly a third of the votes until it was disbanded in 1992

I don't think it ended up in horror or that it made Italy a place in ruins

Corruption was very popular here in those years, but the government have been anti communists for 50 years straight from the end of WW2 until 1998, when the first former communist, Massimo D'Alema, became prime minister.

He has also been a popular meme

https://pietrodn.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dalema-meme.jpg

reitanqild|5 years ago

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