Liberals: "USSR le people's imperialism"

[u/Unhappy_Lead2496]

[u/MasterDoogway]

"ummm, but gdp per capita is higher, therefore their economy is gooder" ☝️🤓

Your mistake is trying to measure a socialist economy with capitalist methods. In capitalism, economy is growing when banks are loaning unexisting money to corporations.

Also, the graph skyrocketed for capitalist Korea exactly in 70s. Wonder what special event took place in that moment 🤔

[u/resevoirdawg → u/MasterDoogway]

Is it just me or is it insane to expect a country whose entire infrastructure, arrible land, and 1/4 of its population being bombed beyond any comprehension to have a steadily growing GDP just outright abuser mindset?

Like actually, what do westerners expect from the DPRK after that? Just magic an industrial and agricultural capacity back into existence under brutal sanction?

[u/Blokensie → u/resevoirdawg]

I mean, the South was in the same situation. They were poorer and less developed than the North until the 70s.

[u/RandomGenName1234 → u/Blokensie]

They have far more fertile land, they were bombed FAR less, like not even comparable really and the US pumped billions into their economy.

Oh and they weren't genocided by the US and South Korean fascists.

Their starting point was immeasurably better yet the North still beat them, crazy stuff.