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The first was the USSR, which was dramatically uplifting for the working classes. It was followed by PRC, DPRK, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, etc, and movements in countries like Venezuela are trying to establish socialism. All of these countries brought dramatic improvements to their living standards upon adopting socialism. For example, in Russia and China, life expectancies doubled, and functional literacy rates went from 20-30% to 99.9%. In the case of Cuba and the DPRK, we can see resiliance against sanctions that results in higher living standards contextually than peer capitalist countries.