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Ron Paul on Iran & Energy (C-SPAN 6/26)
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Ron Paul discusses rising energy costs and Iran.
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some say that communism doesn't work, and take Stalin as an example. Thats basically like saying capitalism doesn't work, and take Hitler as an example.
In 1930 the Soviet ruble was 20 cent to a dollar. (shortly after the revolution) in 1970 that had increased to 60 cent to a dollar.
In other words, the soviet planned economy was growing faster than the american free market economy.
Also in 1980 the average soviet citizen had 15.000 dollars per citizen, at present a russian family have 9.000 dollars per citizen.
in fact the evidence is stacked FOR communism, not against it.
Pirates have decreased for the last 80 years.
SEE PROOF HURRICANES AND PIRATES ARE INVERSELY CORRELATED!
What were starting values of the currencies, what trading came into play, wars, environmental influences, what about resource availability, what about research and health care and other services are they available? Your monetary comparison does not even reflect true wealth, currencies always deflate and inflate for economic reasons.
The currencies was a picture of the larger economic situation of the two nations, when comparing them. If you didn't realize that, well then im just suprised.
I thought this was common knowledge, but since ur asking, The Soviet Union had: Free healthcare, free houses/apartments provided by the government, proper healthcare etc. Like any proper socialist nation. Its the basics of socialism/communism.
So lets sum it up:
people were richer in the Soviet Union, than the russians are now.
They had free healthcare
EXTREMLY reduced food prices
free housing
guaranteed jobs for everyone.
This beats present day russia, and there is no way you can counter it.
Yes, Stalin was a prick. But guess what, Soviet had other presidents too.
There was massive political unrest and rioting. The wealth was stolen from the Kulaks just as Nazi's stole it from the jews to redistribute as well as limiting consumption and redirecting all output back to investment into industry.
By the way the number of deaths caused by Stalin is something historians have a hard time agreeing on. It could be a few hundred thousand, it could even only be 70.000. But it could also be millions. Its hard to say.
Anyway you can't give an example of any system of communism more effective than this and it failed.
Show me these records.
And the Soviet Union was trying to achieve communism, they didn't have it. It was a socialistic society, just like Cuba is at the moment.
You know what reall fails? capitalists who've too blind to open their mind to other things, than what their society tells them.
Don't you get why the communist movement is rising all over the world?. Because it is needed.
By the way i never said that you weren't allowed to know these things in the west, my point is they don't write it in the history books they give our children.
But yet the fact remains, Soviet Economy was gaining on the american untill the 1970's. (in 1970 the average east german was actually richer than the average british, this is undenieable fact look itup