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Originally Posted by Thorondor
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You're assuming they ONLY industrialized, and did so at athe rate that they did, because of socialism. Where is your proof that Tsar Nicholas and his would-be successors were anti-industrialization? How can you say, that Russia's industrialization would not have happened anyways. For all intents and purposes, history has proven Russia to be fairly competent, and contemporarily "current" in terms of world power, regardless of what sociopolitical system of rule that they operate under, so how can you claim "socialism" as causual?
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Russia has always been a warlord state under a strongman's throne. "Socialism" or no, this is an unbroken sequence. Socialism didn't do it. But revolution that granted the autocrat orders of magnitude greater concentration of power may well have made the diff between getting steamrolled by better-looking Germans and saving freedom in the west, creating the beautiful, utopian, culturally diverse world we know & love today. I therefore posit that socialism & revolution were a dandy thing in Russia. Godbless