As despair continues to engulf Venezuela, voters go to the polls

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6. Most do.

Even the Soviet experiment was a disaster until the NEP. Stalin built a lot of the country on the bodies of workers, some nominally free and some in GULags.

It's harder to have this kind of revolution now, though. Borders are leakier for information flow than ever before, and when you have starvation it's hard to mask it and dupe the outside world and inside party base. What's left is telling them not to care--which was also the Soviet party line, "those people have more than you, they don't really count as real people, they don't feel pain like you do."