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[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

I lived in the one and only - USSR.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I believe that comparing a poor socialist country to a rich capitalist country is a false equivalency. I've noticed it's common amongst those who got out of the former Soviet bloc countries to believe they were the only socialist countries that ever happened, but pretty much all of western europe is at the very least mixed, and would have been considered up until recent times to be actually socialist. I know until the 80s in Australia if you asked someone what our economy was they would say "socialist".