According to NZ Redditor, Czechoslovakia was an agrarian country and industrialized only thanks to USSR.

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  1. USSR is a bad dystopic totalitarian regime, not a real communism, but at the same time better than the US and a great example of communism that works well.

    I guess uranium mines really do change the quality of life.

    edit: redditor’s evidence for the agrarian nature of Czechoslovakia is that we were founding members of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Agrarian_Bureau

    I guess he didn’t really read the article, nor did he read the article about Škoda works or that 60-80% of AU industry was in Czechoslovakia.

  2. Maybe someone should ask this person why Germany invaded Czechoslovakia before the war. It wasn’t because of their lack of industrialization. Quite the opposite. That is such a well known fact is sad this person is so ignorant.

  3. .fwiw as a brit I was taught as part of ww2 history that the Sudetenland was heavily industrialised & that’s one reason why Hitler wanted it.

  4. Pre WW2 Czechoslovakia was one of the biggest weapon producers.

    Which doesn’t mean we weren’t agrarian country. We just knew how to grow weapons. /s

  5. Denní připomínka, že Československo mělo stejné GDP na osobu jako Rakousko, Finsko a Itálie před komunismem a 10x nižší než předem zmíněné národy po komunismu.

    Kdybychom odtrhli Slovensko, tak by bylo ještě vyšší :trollface:

  6. Neni nic lepšího, než když nás o naší vlastní historii poučuje někdo z druhý strany světa!

    Mimochodem, s lidma, kteří odmítají slyšet, se já odmítám bavit.

  7. První republika byla zemědělská proto taky byla desátá největší hospodářská země světa. Dává to smysl.

  8. I’m a Czech living in NZ. Give me their reddit name. I’ll track them down and give them a slap

  9. Even if we ignore the clear historic and geographic ignorance of the Kiwi… According to some estimates, the deathtoll of the Soviet industrialization was as high as 20 million.

    I bet that vas majority of those dead would prefer to plant potates in own small garden rather than such participation in the making of Soviet “greatness”.

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