I don't write this for pieces of shit like you but for others, who might be interested in this topic.
What the Soviets did in WW2 was spare America from having to fight 7 out of 10 German soldiers in Western Europe along with thousands of more tanks, artillery pieces..etc. If it weren't for the Soviets the American death toll wouldn't have been just 460K (less than half a million), but rather 10 million KIA, 30 million KIA..etc. The Soviets lost 28 million people, 14% of its population and we only lost 0.03% of ours. To say that WW2 is irrelevant is retarded, but of course, that's what SoupNazi is, a retard.
Without the war, the American economy would've remained in recession. The US became the world's manufacturing hub, and exclusive issuer of the international reserve currency, thanks to WW2. It developed the wealthiest workforce in the world, enjoying the highest standard of living, thanks to coming out of WW2 unscathed, unlike Europe and Japan. That's the benefit of having your country located between two large oceans thousands of miles away from the battlefields of a world war. You get the privilege of not being invaded by millions of enemy troops as the Soviets were.
SoupNazi's claim that the Soviets never eliminated famine is a bald-faced lie. First of all, there were plenty of famines before Soviet socialism, under the Tsars, why doesn't he mention that? He's an ignorant hypocrite.
By the late 1930s, the Soviet Union was more mechanized in its food production than the US and Western Europe. The Soviets eliminated food shortages by the mid-1930s. It was a world war that caused famines in the USSR, not socialism. Today as well, any famines or shortages that occur in places like Cuba, are due to war. The economic terrorism of the capitalist-run America causes small, developing nations like Cuba to suffer economically and otherwise.
If we had been invaded by four million Germans, as the Soviets were, we too would've suffered food shortages. In the 1980s, food shortages in Russia were due to Perestroika or market reforms, not socialism. The capitalist reforms pushed by Soviet government liberals like Gorbachev and Yeltsin, in their misguided attempt to placate the US, thinking that would end the Cold War, destroyed the Soviet economy. Most of the images we have online of breadlines in the USSR are in the 1980s. The less socialist the USSR became the more it undermined its production output.
Germany's National Socialism turned Germany into one of the most technologically advanced, wealthiest, most productive nations on Earth. Socialism whether right-wing or leftist, is always much better than capitalism. American capitalism creates gross inequality and debt. Over half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and have less than $500 in savings. Tens of millions of Americans are medically uninsured and haven't had a checkup in over ten years, if not more. Americans get seriously ill and run to the emergency room, that's "primary care" in this country. Don't see a doctor until the shit hits the fan.
He's ignoring the fact that most nations can't establish regular diplomatic or economic relations with Cuba for the reasons I already covered in previous posts. The US controls the world's reserve currency and international banking system, hence banks that in the past have tried to open accounts for Cuba have been heavily fined. Cuban assets are frozen by the US and Cuba is essentially a financial leper in the international community.
If any company or government sends its expensive cargo ships to anchor in a Cuban port, they will be barred for six months from anchoring in any port on American territory. All technology that is patented under US law, or machines that contain 14% or more American parts or patented technology, is prohibited from being sold or imported into Cuba. There's a long list of raw materials, technology, and machinery that the US prohibits to be sold to Cuba, and countries and companies that refuse to comply with the US government-imposed sanctions, are liable to pay fines, and can be banned from conducting business with the USA.
If a country or business has a choice between conducting commerce with Cuba or the American empire, which one do you think they're going to choose? Obviously, they're going to see Cuba as an unnecessary liability and do business with the American empire, that controls the world's reserve currency and banking system, maintaining good relations with Washington, not Havana.
He continues to assert that socialist nations don't need to trade with others and that's ridiculous. Socialism is when the means of production is either 100% owned by the working class or at least half of every business enterprise is partly owned by its employees. It's when capitalists are forced by law, to serve their country through their businesses, hiring workers, and producing goods and services for the community. That's socialism, whether it's leftist Marxism or right-wing nationalist/fascist socialism (national socialism).
Socialism is the future, whether "SoupShitHead" likes it or not. You're not going to stop socialism, it's the natural, inevitable result of advanced automation and AI. Industrialization and automation always lead to socialism or war. Choose, but you'll lose anyways if you fight against socialism. It always wins, one way or another. Right now Western Europe is essentially socialist. They have mixed socialist economies, not Milton Friedman's "free-market capitalism".
Soupidiot is confused.
Keep dreaming.