DEATH TO ZIONAZIS
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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A health invention in a vacuum is useless.
If you have health inventions but then withhold them from poor people, average livespan will increase very little.
If you have health inventions and then make a system that supplies those to everyone, average lifespan will increase very much.
in 1945, penicillin became widely available, we have no proof that stalin caused it
God ordained "there shall be abundant penicillin" in 1945 and there was penicillin.
more like "yay we found out how to mass produce commercial penicillin" "no no no our Leader Comrade Stalin did"
No? Socialism made a life-saving medicine more widely available.
the USDA is known for their extreme socialism
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.