@HyperboreanWave @Polfusilier @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @plotinus_enjoyer @BowsacNoodle The problem is that I've seen the fruits of the based USSR first hand. The oldest Buddhist temples in Mongolia are about 30 years old, sitting on the rubble destroyed by the communists. China has very little archeological history, the communists destroyed it all. Vietnam is desperate to restore cultural traditions and practices that were obliterated by the communists. It's the same everywhere they went. That the USSR improved at all near the fall is the point, the USSR fundamentally could not coexist with those improvements.

America sucks, but it does not make the USSR based. Both suck.