@cy @BalooUriza > But it was also subject to decades of economic embargo from every bastard capitalist state out there, doing their absolute best to starve poor people to death to force them to revolt.

Try explaining the Romanian Palace of Parliament built by Ceaușescu. Romania was "so poor" it could construct the second largest administrative building in the world. My friend who grew up during this time told me that magically the food and sugar rationing disappeared when they killed him. It was being hoarded. There wasn't really a shortage.