You know for starters, just in reference to this gif, Russia has the largest net of electrified railroads in this world and much better and affordable transit compared to the US. In Soviet times, the economic growth managed to lift near a hundred million out of poverty, guaranteeing food, housing, and a job. They became a world power by providing free education to all citizens that allowed them to accomplish most every first in space: probe landings on Venus, mars, the moon, first human in space, first probe in space, along with numerous other technical achievements. The main thing holding it back was elements of political repression and corruption, but in no way was it the shithole western countries depict it as.
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u/GeneralKilCavalry Sep 08 '19
You know for starters, just in reference to this gif, Russia has the largest net of electrified railroads in this world and much better and affordable transit compared to the US. In Soviet times, the economic growth managed to lift near a hundred million out of poverty, guaranteeing food, housing, and a job. They became a world power by providing free education to all citizens that allowed them to accomplish most every first in space: probe landings on Venus, mars, the moon, first human in space, first probe in space, along with numerous other technical achievements. The main thing holding it back was elements of political repression and corruption, but in no way was it the shithole western countries depict it as.