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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by Spooky23 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:44PM (#15529700)
Russia has been through the wringer.

They had an insane monarchy that delayed industrialization, missed out on the middle class development and went through a scorched earth total war and communist regime.

It’s a nation of contrast and paradox. Russia is a lot like the US in many ways.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by thriftwy on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:05PM (#15529771)
> insane monarchy that delayed industrialization

That actually isn't true. Russian monarchy wasn't late to industrialize, and around half of industrial success claimed by USSR is rooted before 1917. For example, Donbass was already a thing back then.

The other half was built by the USA.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by Spooky23 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @10:43PM (#15530315)
Most sources talk about the industrial revolution hitting Russia in the 1890s — it was an agrarian society with feudal governance.

It was decades behind the UK and others. That’s not to say there was no industry, but over half of output was peasant agriculture circa 1900, and the old methods were unable to adequately feed the nation.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by thriftwy on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:36AM (#15530944)
Of course it was behind UK. Everybody was behind UK at the time. It's like comparing with South Korea today.

Soviet period is when mass starvations happened. And not only during wars.

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