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Re:In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to ... by mlvljr on Sunday August 05, 2012 @08:04AM (#4341245)
(speaking from Russia) at the time of that argument, our propaganda guys did have a point: the poverty was defeated here, everyone had a job guarantee, an opportunity to get (free) world-class higher education, choose a career in science, military, or industry, etc.

Speaking of China, they do have their problems (of course), but to have a moral right to criticize, other fellow countries should at least stop their oil-for-bombs and occupation-based-on-rumors politics (and we will see, how that will change the quality of life and corruption level).

But the resemblance is there, yeah ;)

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Re:In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to ... by InclinedPlane on Sunday August 05, 2012 @12:16PM (#4341802)
Are you implying that in the 1960s there was literally no one living in poverty in the soviet union?

Seems to be some evidence against that, such as: http://books.google.com/books/about/Poverty_in_the_Soviet_Un...

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Re:In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to ... by mlvljr on Sunday August 05, 2012 @04:24PM (#4342518)
Yes, I'm speaking exactly of the golden era of USSR (1961 -- 1979, roughly), and the evidence of my family, relatives and friends clearly states, that poverty was _literally_ defeated by that time -- you plain could not be starving from hunger or be homeless (unless you prefered to, but that was against the law, and everyone was guaranteed to have a roof above his head).

Speaking short and plain, everyone had at least enough to live a healthy life, and quite many had somewhat more.

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Re:In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to ... by m0skit0 on Sunday August 05, 2012 @02:38PM (#4342184)
Poverty in the USSR didn't impeach you from having free health care, free education and almost free basic food and transport. Compare with poors in the USA.
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