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I guess what I'm asking is whether a free market and democratic system could have lifted a people who were nothing but peasant dirt farmers up so quickly?
Or did it require the firm hand of Stalinist/Maoist types and a communal economic and social system to succeed so quickly?
And therefore, might there be a legitimate place in the world for such governments (less the torture/gulag/kgb elements, preferably.
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