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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.
Compared to feudalism. Low bar, huh?
Plus lol@famines. Ukraine wants a word.
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.
Holodomor is a river in Egypt.
I already acknowledged that there was a famine in the early 1930s. If your point was that this was a deliberate, intentional famine, then even serious liberal scholars believe it to have been a combination of adverse weather conditions and mismanagement. For instance, Mark Tauger wrote:
Tauger believes it was a failure of economic policy, not an intentional attack on ethnic Ukrainians. The 1930s famine was a combination of drought, flooding, and mismanagement. Further, the Kulaks, wealthy bourgeois farmers, magnified matters by killing their own crops in the midst of a famine rather than letting the Red Army collectivize them. The Politburo was also kept in the dark about how bad the famine was getting:
From: Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.
Excerpt from the protocol number of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist party (Bolsheviks) “Regarding Measures to Prevent Failure to Sow in Ukraine, March 16th, 1932.
Letter to Joseph Stalin from Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine regarding the course and the perspectives of the sowing campaign in Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.
Letter from Joseph Stalin to Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.
Evidence doesn't point to deliberately killing some of the Soviet Union's most loyal citizens in the breadbasket of the entire USSR, when they desperately needed to advance agricultural production (and did).
The USSR had no famine!
^Except^ ^the^ ^one^ ^that^ ^killed^ ^millions^ ^of^ ^people^
Let me copy and paste my previous answer, bolding for new emphasis:
The fact millions died by famine proves my point that the USSR was great in terms of famine.
When famine was common and regular due to feudal relations for centuries, and within a couple decades the Soviets eradicated famine forever, then yes, they were great.
Some (millions) of you might die, but that a price im willing to pay!
No? Socialism didn't cause the famine. Famine was not a "price," it was a historically recurring symptom of underdeveloped feudal agriculture that the soviets abolished as soon as they could.
Just in time to kill a few million rebellious rapscallions. Minor oopsie.
No? What part of "famine was historically common due to feudal agriculture, so when the soviets collectivized agriculture famine was ended forever" is difficult to understand?
The lying part