Saw some posts about .ml today and thought I'd jump on the bandwagon lol
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Oh it cannot be denied? There must be some pretty strong numeric data suggesting that. Care to share?
Ask that to Vietnamese, Iraqi, Libyans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Burkinabe, Algerians... Turns out that the western liberal democracies don't preserve individual freedoms, they only export more of the authoritarianism abroad and keep the situation easier at home because the richer working class is less prone to murdering them!
After? With Stalin, life expectancy went from 28 to 55 years of age, land collectivization was successfully carried out (not without difficulties), and massive literacy campaigns taught everyone to read. Again, not because of Stalin in particular, because history isn't made by one person and he wasn't an absolute dictator the way you believe he was.
You've completely ignored my point of how it is possible that the USSR got 5 benevolent dictators in a row maintaining the highest welfare state and lowest inequality in the history of the region.