We hear a great deal about the crimes of communism but almost nothing about its achievements. The communist govern-ments inherited societies burdened with an age-old legacy of eco-nomic exploitation and maldevelopment. Much of precommunist Eastern Europe, as 1/4
with prerevolutionary Russia and China, was in effect a Third World region with widespread poverty and almost nonexistent capital formation. Most rural transportation was still by horse and wagon. The devastation of World War II added another heavy layer of 2/4
misery upon the region, reducing hundreds of villages and many cities to rubble. It was the communists and their allies who rebuilt these societies. While denounced in the U.S. press for leaving their economies in bad shape, in fact, the Reds left the economy 3/4
of Eastern Europe in far better condition than they found it. #abolishNATO 4/4
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