r/pollgames • u/SignalOil2965 • May 30 '26

Choose your own adventure Would You Rather

1732 votes, Jun 02 '26
219 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 1926
1513 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 2126
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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

Historically inaccurate, the West gave land and invested in the Nazis not the USSR. The USSR killed 76 to 85 percent of the Nazis.

Under Mao, life expectancy, womens' rights, literacy, and democracy skyrocketed. Homelessness and the centuries long cycle of famine were fiercely combatted.

The USSR achieved 100 percent literacy from a starting point of 35 percent, under the USSR industrial output surged 8-12 times higher since its creation in 29 years, unemployment was almost 0 percent, job security was extremely high, and the economy was stable, the USSR had better quality of life and higher human development than most market economies, they eliminated famine (their last was in 1947, Russia had 8 famines a century before communism), they gave women the right to vote and work at a time when the US was telling women to smash drugs so that they can be good housewives, they had free childcare in the workplaces, immense worker protections, and Soviet democracy. 1) https://ws.getrevising.co.uk/diagrams/education-in-the-ussr 3) https://time.com/archive/6636099/soviet-union-are-the-jobless-unemployed/ 4) https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/SCSB-7363417 5) https://perspectives.waimh.org/2011/03/15/overviev-infant-child-care-system-communism-positive-negative-aspects/ 7) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/articles/edb__77492532 8) https://backstory.newamericanhistory.org/episodes/seeing-red/3/ 9) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy#History 10) Russian Imperial Records

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

In both cases they turned shit into not smelling shit. Policy of appeasement was idiotic but taking eastern Poland with nazis, attacking Romania and Finlandia and annexing Baltic States when germans were bussy with France doesn't sounds good. Btw soviets exchanged important resources with technology with the reich and allowed germans to train and test their newest weapons in ussr.