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    11 days ago

    Sort of a famous counter-example.

    A seventy year long break from capitalist economic practices over half of Europe and most of Asia seems like it should have produced a noticeably different set of ecological outcomes.

    But industrialization appears to take the same ecological toll from Beijing to Belgrade.

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        11 days ago

        It already happened, in the early 90s, when Yeltsin rode a tank up to the Moscow Parliament and started shelling it.

        The USSR latest from 1922 to 1991, give or take a few years depending on how you want to count it.

        Dengism, in China, kicked off in earnest at about the same time (Tianamen Square was largely a Maoist reaction to capitalist land reforms).