• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The Black Book of Communism says that Communism killed 100 Zillion poeple. I assume some of them qualified as the above.

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        The Soviet Union had a wealth gap far smaller than the Tsarist system, or modern Russia. The working classes controlled the state, and used it to uplift those that were at the bottom, using the authority of the state to forcibly appropriate property from landlords and capitalists.