without concentration camps!
Wrong as shit, how are you so ignorant about your own history en.wikipedia.org/…/East_Karelian_concentration_ca…
Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 1 day agoWhen you figure out a better way to do that, get back to me.
Here goes:
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A similar jump from around 1949 to 1980. In China it seems to have begun around 1930, with WWII causing a dent. In Finland the same had begun around 1880’s. But the development between 1949 and 1980 is very similar, only: without concentration camps! (…since 1918.)
RiverRock@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
That’s still not as fast of a development, and the conditions aren’t really comparable. China used to be among the poorest countries in the world.
And while their government has not always been ideal, it was undoubtably the best option on the table historically. The corrupt Nationalists didn’t do shit for the people (and pocketed foreign aid). Before that, with no central authority, was the warlord period. Before that was the backwards Qing dynasty. In all the thousands of years of Chinese history, nobody really did anything for the rural people until the communists.