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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Life expectancy doubled in Russia, literacy rates went from 20-30% (depending on the region) to 99.9% within the span of decades. Healthcare was made free and high quality, same as education. Famine was gradually eliminated in a region where Tsarist agriculture made that a common affair. Homes were dramatically upgraded from wooden shacks in rural areas to decent apartments for everyone. I don’t know where in Eastern Europe your family is from, but the great majority of society saw dramatic improvements compared to semi-feudalism before it. Aristocrats and capitalists definitely lost out, and the transition wasn’t bloodless, but the vast majority of society pulled ahead.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Compared to feudalism. Low bar, huh?

    Plus lol@famines. Ukraine wants a word.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The majority of socialist states emerged from semi-feudal societies, and they factually made dramatic improvements. The 1930s Soviet famine proves my point, the early 1930s was the last famine in the USSR outside of wartime, becuse by 1933 they had successfully collectivized agriculture and abolished the former Kulak system. The famine wasn’t caused by socialism, it was ended by it.

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Holodomor is a river in Egypt.

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