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Re:Migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim r... by Blackthorn on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:51PM (#21668223)
No other viable option? I recall the Soviet Union's entrance into communism transformed them in a single generation from a backwards nation with serfs to a nation that won the space race, despite facing two wars, one of which involved a genocidal dictator intent on completely destroying them.
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Re:Migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim r... by barry-cotter on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:06AM (#21669785)
One of the reasons WWI broke out when it did was that the German General Staff knew that within ten years they would not be able to win a war with the Russian Empire. The USSR was a lot more backward economically than the Russian Empire, as would be expected when you cut yourself off from world trade and investment and kill large portions of your educated classes.

Serfdom was abolished in 1861, so no the USSR did not go from serfdom to the space race.

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