The Bolsheviks created a super-power in the shortest possible time and in the most difficult conditions. The growth rates of the USSR economy in the 30s are still unsurpassed. Even by todays China. And the population grew at the same time... Strange.
P.S. I'm still waiting for you to give an example of pure capitalism in the history of mankind. You know, with freedom and other invisible hands of the market
" The growth rates of the USSR economy in the 30s are still unsurpassed."
Of course they aren't, you moron.
None of it was true....it was created for imbeciles like you, and the other fellow-travelers.
During the early 20th century, there was a need for the sort of reforms for working Americas that communists promised. Believing the lies about the motherland of Marxism was nearly universal because most wanted to, needed to, believe them.
And the Bolsheviks used this need.
And the ‘believers’ became professors, and academics and ‘experts.’ You were fed the Leftist lies in every economics class.
In 1970 the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the author of the best-selling and most popular economics text was
Paul Samuelson. Another 'brilliant'
Liberal economist out to
support communism, i.e., command and control by big government.
"As non-economist Tim Bethell pointed out in a 1988 article in
National Review, successive editions of Samuelson's
Economics showed a graph of relative
growth rates for the US and Soviet economies with the Soviet growth rate rising more steeply than the American one. ....the Soviets were projected to overtake the US in about twenty-five years."
John O’Sullivan,
The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, p. 255
The 'data' was, of course, fed to this scholar by the same folks who built Potemkin Villages.
"With each new edition of the book, the date of intersection with the US economy was shifted out into the future. Samuelson's seventh edition (1967) ....put the Soviet economy at 50% of the US in 1960...with intersection ...in about 1990.
By the tenth edition (1976)....Soviet GDP had moved ahead to 57% of US........intersection point around the year 2000.
The graph has been dropped from Samuelson's ...(twelfth) edition.
BTW even after WWII believing the lies persisted.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm
Today, ‘believers’ vote Democrat.
Thinkers don't.