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A comment on The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2011). Parent comment

Re:The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Fa... by rospaya on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:12PM (#16416840)
> Did it improve faster than it would have under democratic rule?

That wasn't an option for Russia at any point, as it isn't even today.

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Re:The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Fa... by nasredin on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:53AM (#16420706)
It's sad. Russia only had less than a decade of somewhat democratic rule over the last... I don't even know... years.
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