b.) Unlike the US, Soviet Union came out of WW2 with cities destroyed, and 20% of its population killed, most of them able-bodied men in their prime.
Yet, by 1984, the USSR had:
- free universal healthcare
- largely egalitarian society with very little inequality
- free, excellent education system, from K through PhD
- women treated equally in the workforce unlike the West
- walkable cities with very good public transit
What the free world had:
- Start of Reagonomics and Thatcherism era
- Plenty of cheap consumer goods to buy and waste
- Fantastic entertainment industry
- White flight and suburban sprawl
- Beginning of War on Drugs, sponsorship of Islamic extremism in Afghanistan
I guess my point is that one should probably define "advanced" before proceeding to discuss it.
>National Health Service 1946-1948
>Defining Thatcherism as bad
All before 1984.
You can't take all the bad parts of the 'West', however you define it, and compare it with a single country.
b.) Unlike the US, Soviet Union came out of WW2 with cities destroyed, and 20% of its population killed, most of them able-bodied men in their prime.
Yet, by 1984, the USSR had:
- free universal healthcare
- largely egalitarian society with very little inequality
- free, excellent education system, from K through PhD
- women treated equally in the workforce unlike the West
- walkable cities with very good public transit
What the free world had:
- Start of Reagonomics and Thatcherism era
- Plenty of cheap consumer goods to buy and waste
- Fantastic entertainment industry
- White flight and suburban sprawl
- Beginning of War on Drugs, sponsorship of Islamic extremism in Afghanistan
I guess my point is that one should probably define "advanced" before proceeding to discuss it.