The USSR took a backwards country of starving peasants and turned it into the worlds greatest superpower while defeating the Nazi’s
Worlds greatest superpower? This one?
American “Lend-Lease” support sent to the USSR not only tipped the scales in Eastern Europe but enabled the victory on the Russian Front.
Assisting the Soviet war effort American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today. Those shipments included 400,000 vehicles, 14,000 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 4.5 million tons of food, and 2.7 million tons of petroleum products, as well as millions of blankets, uniforms, and boots, and 107,000 tons of cotton
Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan and forced grain procurement from farmers. These factors in conjunction with a massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce.[11] It is estimated that 5.7[9] to 8.7[10][11] million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union.
Oopsie woopsie 😂 bloody hell that’s so bad though, so glad communism died out
I also have no idea why you’d use a failed state as an example of just how great marxism is, I guess it’s slim pickings when economic reality hits economic idealism, also funny how literally all the break away soviet states had popular revolutions away from communism and none of them have any intention of going back
It’s for the return to Australian values, the socialist ones of the post war era. An era which the baby boomers grew up in and then preceded to gut for their profit
Most Australians are doing pretty alright, in the context of the world we have a super high quality of living, we live like kings, unlimited food, entertainment, access to the worlds knowledge, we live a life unrivalled, the biggest protest we had recently was for… Palestine lol? a place a million miles away which has nothing to do with us
The biggest problem is housing which is largely because again, we live like kings, more single people living in 2 and 3 bedroom houses/apartments than ever before, many elderly and simply holed up in massive houses by themselves due to stamp duty making it uneconomical to downsize
You seem to be solving a problem that largely isn’t there
You’ve just found the problem with communism ;) when you centralise all resources under one man, it turns out people can be real power hungry dicks
So your argument is we let things get worse, and be thankful of what we have.
I don’t really see things getting worse, with immigration rates going down and labor spending a ton of money on building houses and streamlining approvals I expect over the next 5 years house prices to cool
Cool, chill, you do that buddy.
tbh i can’t ask for much more? I have pretty much everything anyone could want and I’m just a regular joe :S
Is there something I should want? 2 overseas holidays a year?
Australians travelling overseas again in record numbers despite the cost-of-living crisis
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Worlds greatest superpower? This one?
nationalww2museum.org/…/lend-lease-eastern-front
I assume you’ll be the first in line to thank America :D
You also forgot to mention this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933
Oopsie woopsie 😂 bloody hell that’s so bad though, so glad communism died out
I also have no idea why you’d use a failed state as an example of just how great marxism is, I guess it’s slim pickings when economic reality hits economic idealism, also funny how literally all the break away soviet states had popular revolutions away from communism and none of them have any intention of going back
Most Australians are doing pretty alright, in the context of the world we have a super high quality of living, we live like kings, unlimited food, entertainment, access to the worlds knowledge, we live a life unrivalled, the biggest protest we had recently was for… Palestine lol? a place a million miles away which has nothing to do with us
The biggest problem is housing which is largely because again, we live like kings, more single people living in 2 and 3 bedroom houses/apartments than ever before, many elderly and simply holed up in massive houses by themselves due to stamp duty making it uneconomical to downsize
You seem to be solving a problem that largely isn’t there
Kayel@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 4 days ago
You’ve just found the problem with communism ;) when you centralise all resources under one man, it turns out people can be real power hungry dicks
I don’t really see things getting worse, with immigration rates going down and labor spending a ton of money on building houses and streamlining approvals I expect over the next 5 years house prices to cool
tbh i can’t ask for much more? I have pretty much everything anyone could want and I’m just a regular joe :S
Is there something I should want? 2 overseas holidays a year?
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-16/…/104337072
Kayel@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Agreed, still off topic. This really was meant to be a global economics piece, not a politics piece.
Obviously I think more needs to be done on housing - end capt. gains discount for property, neg. gearing. But agreed.
What do you is going to happen when the Americans wake up? I think both of us are going to get some replies.
I might delete my comments. This was off topic