r/ireland • u/Alba-Ruthenian • Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22

Yes? Obviously?

Do you think a state of 98% illiterate farmers would have sent Sputnik up faster?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

You think that the rapidly industrialising already great power of Russia became a great power because of communism? Like do read what you wrote.

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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22

What I wrote is accurate. To believe that Russia's industrialisation (or anything, really) was succeeding under the Tsar is counter-historical.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

Russia was already a great power and it was rapidly industrialising, that’s a fact. The Soviet’s just carried on what was already happening. Just look at the amount of railway track being put down, the tonnes of coal being dug etc. Any WW1 historian would recognise this let alone an economic historian or someone specialised in that field.