10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by lr4444lr on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:29PM (#41028319)

At what expense did the Soviet Union do that? Millions imprisoned and killed by starvation and forced labor.

Commandeering an empire's wealth into militarization and the space program sure made for great pageantry just like North Korean nukes and cyberweapons, but it doesn't mean anything like a holistic measure of well being was achieved.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by cardanome on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:12PM (#41029201)

The space program used too much bread? How are these things related?

The space program started after WW2. There was never any famine in the Soviet Union after WW2 except the one directly after the was for obvious reasons.

And the militarization was necessary to survive against Nazi Germany and later to keep the balance of power intact against an empire that had proven two times that it was able and willing to use nuclear weapons.

The space program proved the importance of science under socialism and the great education system while the US only managed compete by stealing Nazi scientists.

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