23-07-2010, 01:18 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Somewhere there are the figures for the post Soviet mortality rates. I don't have them handy but they were quite staggering. Decades of improvements in all health indicators, maternal/infant deaths, life expectancy etc. All plummeted like a stone in water after the collapse of the Soviet states. Capitalism and for profit basic services are definitely bad for human health.
I'd only add to the health of all life forms!!!!!Real Bad....likely terminal.
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