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[RugnirViking]

The soviets made a pretty good go of turning a theistic feudal monarchy largely with an economy focused on agriculture into the second biggest industrial power in the world for almost a hundred years. Certainly not perfect, and horrible to live in in many ways, but better at building an economy than a lot of other similarly sized places.

[qaq]

That's pretty bold statement considering USSR collapse was caused by economic weakness. It never was "second biggest industrial power " outside of it's own propaganda.

[lottin]

And somehow they managed to starve millions of people in the process. If you call this a good job.... okay.

[batter]

'second biggest industrial power' assume this is a joke. Poor quality: anything that was made was so bad, this habit is still alive and even russians hate their own products. Stealing: ancient car designs and engineering is good example. And as you know it never improved. Millions of lives were taken to achieve nonsense goals, people were starved, frozen, deprevated from food. What kind of human you have to be justify that? Well, but it didn't touch you or your family, so it's fine. Lets continue glorifying crazy stuff, we're just engineers, right?

[augustuspolius]

Wonder if the person you are replying to meant Russia, not USSR.

[vkou]

It did, do you think it went from a rural imperial backwater to... A second-rate industrialized economy in the span of a generation by accident?

(Despite being ravaged by five years of civil war, and then four years of a world war.)

A lot of awful things were done in that time period (and the one that followed), but you have to be blind to not call much of it nation-building.

[mardifoufs]

Russia or the ussr?