There's only about 100.000.000 people in the entirety of the former Eastern bloc and poverty didn't rise to 100%. The percentage remained probably constant or slightly falling, but due to high birth rates, the absolute number grew.
Of course, with technology accelerating in progress a lot between 1980 and 2015-ish, it's no surprise that the neolibs' boasts of "we are eliminating poverty" has a small element of truth to it, especially as countries of the third world buy western low quality or used goods. Though even if we somewow had 0 poverty, universal healthcare (I'm looking at you yankkks), trains everywhere and net 0 emissions, we still need to fight capitalism and replace it with a system that's both democratically controlled, won't shit itself every few years and isn't driven by the laws of profit
Ah, you're right. I often make the mistake of referring to the Eastern bloc as the Warsaw Pact countries sans USSR, with the extended allies defined as the COMECON, while I have no name for the pro-soviet countries that weren't member states of either.
There's only about 100.000.000 people in the entirety of the former Eastern bloc and poverty didn't rise to 100%. The percentage remained probably constant or slightly falling, but due to high birth rates, the absolute number grew.
Of course, with technology accelerating in progress a lot between 1980 and 2015-ish, it's no surprise that the neolibs' boasts of "we are eliminating poverty" has a small element of truth to it, especially as countries of the third world buy western low quality or used goods. Though even if we somewow had 0 poverty, universal healthcare (I'm looking at you yankkks), trains everywhere and net 0 emissions, we still need to fight capitalism and replace it with a system that's both democratically controlled, won't shit itself every few years and isn't driven by the laws of profit
Agree, but Russia alone has 140+ million people and the Eastern Bloc had 300+ million.
Ah, you're right. I often make the mistake of referring to the Eastern bloc as the Warsaw Pact countries sans USSR, with the extended allies defined as the COMECON, while I have no name for the pro-soviet countries that weren't member states of either.