Jaded_Railman
Banned
Be careful with your terms, lest you create an impression opposite the one you meant to create. If I chose, I could, for example, interpret your comment to mean that Russia's economy, such as it was, was based almost entirely on agricultural export with the few, widely scattered, industrial enterprises dependent largely on State and foreign support (the latter made available via loans that were never intended by donors or donees to be paid back), that its politics were hopelessly reactionary, that its population was deliberately undereducated and consciously enchained in outmoded social structures long after their supposed dissolution.
Oh wait...
Which pretty much describes your typical low income country these days.
Faeelin said:Eh. This isn't true, however; America's economy was the largest and most modern on the planet in 1914.
What isn't true?