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Originally Posted by PeterCrackhead
I guess Mumbai missed your memo on how great capitalism is for everyone?
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Wikipedia: After India's independence in 1947...the nationalisation of major industries and the banking sector...In the 1960s, the Communist Party of India formed India's first democratically elected communist government when it won elections in the states of Kerala and later West Bengal. However, when a global recession began in the late 1970s, economic stagnation, chronic shortages and state inefficiency left many disillusioned with state socialism...
Wikipedia: In the late 1980s and 1990s, India's government began to systematically liberalise the Indian economy by pursuing privatisation...
Also Mumbai. Love to see the equivalent in Havana.
CATO institute: What would the impact on social indicators have been had India commenced economic reform one decade earlier, and enjoyed correspondingly faster economic growth and improvements in human development indicators?...with earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived...
In one decade Indian socialism killed as many children as Hitler murdered in the same timeframe, but it's Indian kids that died so the left doesn't care.
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Originally Posted by PeterCrackhead
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Hey, at least we got shirtwaists from the deal. Whatever shirtwaists were. That's your first clue that your data is obsolete. The second clue is that it happened more than a century ago.
Meanwhile, in Red China:
Xinjiang Movie Theater, Xinjiang, China, 1977
(667 deaths)
And instead of making shirtwaists, they were being bored to tears by movies like this: