>From: dredmond at efn.org
Russia and Eastern Europe posted respectable growth rates during the heyday of Communism; Mao's China, Ho's Vietnam and Fidel's Cuba accomplished great things in land reform, basic industrialization and education.
-- Stalin had boggles-the-mind growth rates. I am deeply awed every time I walk by a Stalin building or the Stalin-built metro -- what must it have been like for a peasant from the regions in the 30s? "We're doing it! We're building a new society! We're buildng Communism!"
The 30s were a very bloody, but at the same time very idealistic, time in the USSR.
The only time you hear the word "Stalinist" in Russia, BTW, is with respect to architecture.
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