Fuck me running, you're an idiot.
If you do not change the "poverty line" but inflate the currency, PRESTO! The "poverty rate" goes down. Nobody is ACTUALLY better off, but on paper, there is "less poverty."
communism in Russia didn't fall overnight, Nobody invaded and conquered them. WW2 Russia vs Germany, was just one socialist scumbag trying to kill another.
Russian communism failed for one simple reason. It was run by communists. The dumbest motherfuckers on Earth. The only people that can compete with dimocrap scum in the race to the bottom of Darwinian Barrel.
communism, in and of itself, isn't a horribly, terrible theory. None of them are really much better than the other. Capitalism is certainly no prize winner.
The problem is in who runs it. Who administrates it. Who greases the wheels. And, in case you haven't noticed, communists and dimocrap scum (same people) are uniformly
stupid. Not just kinda stupid, I'm talking 'Animal Dumb' 'Mouth Breathing' stupid. The kind of stupid that doesn't know what color an Orange is. Or ask what the number for 911 is. The kind of stupid you can explain something to a hundred times and it still doesn't understand a simple theory..... Work for what you want.
They think they're Dorothy in the Land of Oz and all they have to do is wish hard enough for something and
PRESTO, it happens.
They forget about the hard work, the Midnight Oil, the sacrifices made by those who make our system run. The 80 hour weeks....Sleeping at work. They're stupid.
When I was Three (3) years old, I recall watching my Father sit down and write checks out of a huge Checkbook (It was a long time ago, indulge me) and I thought, "We must be rich! Look at all that money my Dad has!!"
At three, those thoughts can be forgiven. When you see it in an Adult, it is just sad.