post #83 is absolute rubbish.

N Korea is more extreme and it's blunders which it's despots' blunders, which it's people unfairly have to shoulder, are more extreme. Nonetheless the Soviets did essentially destroy their farms during Stalin's reign.

Your maps mean nothing without further context. Do you have a source, or are you an expert on the topography and population densities of not only the United States, but also Soviet Russia? At a glance, the distribution of manufacturing, in what I'm assuming is a map of the USSR (which curiously has St. Petersburg instead of Leningrad), seems to make sense. Roughly two thirds of manufacturing being in Western Russia, the rest is distributed among the the populated outposts in the East, which to my knowledge are resource rich, and they're all connected by waterway, rail, or both.

And again, you assert that a classless society was achieved, yet in the very same sentence speak of a ruling class. Gtfo...