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DEATH TO ZIONAZIS

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[โ€“] Edie@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

God ordained "there shall be abundant penicillin" in 1945 and there was penicillin.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

more like "yay we found out how to mass produce commercial penicillin" "no no no our Leader Comrade Stalin did"

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No? Socialism made a life-saving medicine more widely available.

[โ€“] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the USDA is known for their extreme socialism

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The distribution of medicine in the USSR, a much poorer country, was widely available because of the socialist economy and distribution of resources. Medicine does not magically appear, economics decides how and where it goes.