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“You will be more conservative as you grow older” (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The USSR lasted for 70 years, so that's like 3 generations. It also saved the world from Nazism, eliminated illiteracy, ended famines, became a world superpower, and made it to outer space, all within that time.