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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by nradov on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:15PM (#32657208)
The data doesn't support your point about inequality. The other former Communist eastern European countries generally don't have particularly high Gini index values. Other countries have much more income inequality.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by insane_dreamer on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:20PM (#32664426)
I wasn't saying that they have high inequality, just that GDP/Capita isn't necessarily a good measure of prosperity
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