Posted on 04/03/2010 6:13:31 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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Probably why Russian and Chinese communist took two different paths. The Russian people were plundered for decades and the money laundered in the west. The Soviet block never developed a large export economy because that would have led to autonomy—they couldn’t have kept it confined to favored people in the west . In China however, once the idealism wore off, the Chinese worked for themselves albeit in a fascistic economy.
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