Whose space program caused significant dent in their already broken economy just to compete with the US. Won’t call that thriving.
Also China is not socialist. It is state a owned authoritarian capitalist country at best. It just calls itself is socialist but ranks no. 2 in total number of billionaires after the US.
And during both regimes’ socialist/communist eras, each country’s individual death toll, as a result of the economic policies and the authoritarian regimes, was more than the Nazi holocaust. I won’t even call that a thriving civilization let alone thriving of science.
I mean Russia did put people in space
And china
Whose space program caused significant dent in their already broken economy just to compete with the US. Won’t call that thriving.
Also China is not socialist. It is state a owned authoritarian capitalist country at best. It just calls itself is socialist but ranks no. 2 in total number of billionaires after the US.
And during both regimes’ socialist/communist eras, each country’s individual death toll, as a result of the economic policies and the authoritarian regimes, was more than the Nazi holocaust. I won’t even call that a thriving civilization let alone thriving of science.
So how about the death toll of countries under the strain of capitalism?