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You ever been to a Communist Country? They're all poor... except for the Ruling Class.
These are/were the most equal societies out there... as everyone lived in misery. They're an absolute disgrace to humanity.
Tell me about it. When I traveled in he USSR for a month by train in 1987, there was no such thing as a snack (except for the Navel Oranges I brought with me. They lasted the first week--one a night). You ate three times a day. There was no menu on the trains. If you didn't like pork fat, cabbage soup, and Georgian mineral water, you starved. Simple as that. I took small comfort in the idea that, as an American tourist, I was eating high on the hog. Hotels tended to be spartan as well. And the stores were a joke, too. Nothing in them, unless you went, like I did, to a so-called Beriozka where they only accepted foreign currency. Thank god for those.