Remember, we're taking about a country that was brutally looted at gunpoint under a century of colonialism until as recently as the 50s, and has had to build an entire nation from scratch with a population that was over 90% agrarian and still working the land with hand tools when the communist party came to power.
They've made miraculous progress in an incredibly short amount of time, and they didn't have the benefit of a colonial empire to siphon labor and resources from like all of the European powers did.
Remember, we're taking about a country that was brutally looted at gunpoint under a century of colonialism until as recently as the 50s, and has had to build an entire nation from scratch with a population that was over 90% agrarian and still working the land with hand tools when the communist party came to power.
They've made miraculous progress in an incredibly short amount of time, and they didn't have the benefit of a colonial empire to siphon labor and resources from like all of the European powers did.