It is striking how far China has come in the past 30 years...
From a backward country, many times inferior to the USSR in all respects, the Chinese have turned into a prosperous power, one of the world's technological leaders.
All they had to do was crush the liberal scum on Tiananmen Square.
The USSR made roughly the same accomplishment. Even more, from a backward country devastated by civil war, in the same thirty years the USSR became a superpower, defeating the forces of the entire bourgeois Europe led by Germany. Had it not been for the enormous human and material losses of that war, one can only imagine what heights the first socialist state would have reached by today....