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Source: Piketty's World Inequality Report 2022

I shared this deep in a dunk thread earlier and figured there's probably many comrades who haven't seen this data. I think it's very good rhetorically because a lot of libs have an incredibly vibes-based impression that the Soviet Union was just an Animal Farm old-boss-same-as-the-new-boss situation.

Instead, this demonstrates that Russia underwent one of the most dramatic inversions of income inequality of any country in recorded history.

For comparison here is the US over the same time period:

China:

And the UK:

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Americans cheered for Yeltsin when he bombed the parliament.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They would do the same for China as they plunge 1.7billion people into destitution and a living hell.

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