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Yeah. China as I understand it is actually really sincerely investing in economic development for the rural areas in a way that's really genuine and admirable. I'm not saying they are always and uniformly bad, almost no one is that.
Basically, both the USSR and China experimented with some variety of actual communism, realized that it didn't work on a big scale, and abandoned it in favor of command-economy capitalism. The USSR didn't do it in time, but China did, and now China works while the USSR exploded and fell down. Why people try to argue that they were better even economically during the time that they were communist is just totally bizarre to me.