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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34192054.
It's better to simply speak plainly of the effects systems have had rather than trying to moralize away the good in order to emphasize the bad, in my opinion. Dogma makes for bad reasoning.
The Soviet Union felt because the people, from a few of the previous agricultural powerhouses of Europe and western Asia were starving. If that's what reconstructing an economy looks like, I'd rather we don't.
Yes, the communist countries had some good results on education. I'm not sure any of them is worth copying, but they are worth looking it. One would expect a completely different ideology to get some things better, and some worse; it's incredible how few things they managed to do better.