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So this is amazing because you called out my preemptive dismissal, then walked face-first into saying exactly what I preempted.
The only thing this post points out is that people point to Russia as some sort of example of how communism (well, Russia's form of "communism" which is a whole other thing) doesn't work economically. This clearly doesn't make sense because Russia went from agrarian farmers to an industrialized nation considered one of the 2 "great powers" in the world. That doesn't seem like a failed economic system to me. It does not say "Russia is the greatest country to have ever existed" so your analogy doesn't work. It just talks about the economics.
Now what this post never mentions is the social system in which they became an economic powerhouse. Not because we're dismissing or ignoring human rights abuses, but because it literally is not relevant to the argument being made, which is specifically a counter argument to people saying communism doesn't work economically.
We can see this in this post because you have to waffle around saying "well, no one does it without human rights abuses, if this was a pro-american post I would be arguing the opposite, I actually hate both sides etc." the reason you have to take such a weird 'nobody is right' stance is because there's not a point that has been made by pointing out that Stalinism was bad.