Which is hilarious because the capitalists always argue that innovations requires capitalism. They particularly like to point at smartphones, yet cell phones themselves were created in the USSR. Space race? USSR by almost every meaningful metric. The obvious ones people know about, but the USSR are STILL the only country to ever land on Venus.
A few others include:
Medical innovations: The world's first artifical heart, the world's first lung transplant, the world's first liver transplant, cadaveric blood transfusions. All USSR.
Pressure suits and underwater welding? USSR.
Electronic Cigarettes (some people argue the benefits but this is the only thing that helped me quit smoking). China.
Synthetic bovine insulin? China.
Meningitis B Vaccine? Cuba.
Freaking lung cancer vaccine (still in testing admittedly). Cuba.
Capitalists shut down innovation unless they can profit from it. I would argue most of our greatest achievements have been thanks to socialism.
Which is hilarious because the capitalists always argue that innovations requires capitalism. They particularly like to point at smartphones, yet cell phones themselves were created in the USSR. Space race? USSR by almost every meaningful metric. The obvious ones people know about, but the USSR are STILL the only country to ever land on Venus.
A few others include:
Medical innovations: The world's first artifical heart, the world's first lung transplant, the world's first liver transplant, cadaveric blood transfusions. All USSR.
Pressure suits and underwater welding? USSR.
Electronic Cigarettes (some people argue the benefits but this is the only thing that helped me quit smoking). China.
Synthetic bovine insulin? China.
Meningitis B Vaccine? Cuba.
Freaking lung cancer vaccine (still in testing admittedly). Cuba.
Capitalists shut down innovation unless they can profit from it. I would argue most of our greatest achievements have been thanks to socialism.
And even when capitalist countries invent something useful, 99% of the time it is done in the PUBLIC SECTOR 🙄