[lbo-talk] Gulag query

Thiago Oppermann thiago_oppermann at bigpond.com
Fri Apr 11 07:49:41 PDT 2003


On 12/4/2003 12:41 AM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:


>> Economy of course worked better in unofficial sense than this and state
>> support of health care and education at least provided care if not always
>> easy to us and high quality, picture is more mixed.
>
> I've been told everyday healthcare was bad, but specialty health care
> relatively good.

I was under the impression that education in the Eastern Block was far superior to the US public school system, and not only in terms of percentages covered by the service? Is that wrong? If I remember it correctly, the spread was huge, particularly in math and science.

Thiago Oppermann



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