Links: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/austria/corporate-tax-rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

Links: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/austria/corporate-tax-rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

I dont support it i think it was crazy by Putin. But i still praise many things about the former Soviet Union and Maoist china and yugoslavia and cuba etc. . For example that everybody was garanteed a minimum income through the federal job guarantees and the low income inequality etc. .

If thats the case i think thats stupid and i think many would call me a tankie.

I dont think most tankies would say Russia is today socialist. 30% of employees in Russia work for the state in 2016 compared to 70-90% in 1985. And the biggest predisessor parties of Putin´s party United Russia were hard supported by the CIA and the US(because the parties were right wing and for capitalism and free markets etc. .) to win the russian 1991 and 1996 election before they started to rig election results.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14o601y/oc_how_well_the_richest_top_1_have_been_doing_the/

If India went the path of the chinese in 1955 instead of democratic capitalism i think they would have had the same results as China today. You could argue China has been also prevented from improving medical care until the communist party stopped letting it happen.

I was just saying it cause some people might think that it cant be true when the great leap forward happened.

Life expectancy also rose like that in the entire eastern block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_Hungary.svg https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041400/life-expectancy-poland-all-time/ etc.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Do you not believe the stats?

Edit2: If it is so easy why was India and Africa after WW2 still below the world avarage?

I have not said it didnt happen and it doesnt make those statements in the meme wrong.

The statistic https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?time=1870..latest&country=OWID_WRL~CHN~RUS

Edit: And Russia went to below the world avarage after the communist party gave up power in russia in 1991.

Well i included it cause i found it interesting and unexpected given that "Communism killed millions of people" is often said.

Do you think this life expectancy statistic https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041395/life-expectancy-russia-all-time/ is also not right?

It could be that the death rate was unchanged because child mortality has been drastically reduced through better healthcare. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041870/russia-all-time-child-mortality-rate/

And there are dips for ukraine but also child mortality fell a lot in Ukraine. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_Ukraine.jpg

Edit: mistyped

But even with that disaster Mao still raised life expectancy more than the world average from 1955 to 1976(when he died).

Central planning mistakes produced too little food(cause they wanted to buy more machines to industrialize quicker) which were later corrected.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS?end=2021&locations=CN&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1960&view=chart&year=2020