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Replace now dead link with archive.org link: "USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA" (#134)

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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and
Examples from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) by /u/bayarea415, [Stephen Gowans - Do publicly owned, planned economies work](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/), [Ian Goodrum - Socialism vs Capitalism and quality of life](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136693839526223872.html), and [yogthos's USSR acheivements post](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8636) about the USSR specifically:
- [USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA](https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). [Calories consumed surpassed the US](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640). [source](https://artir.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-soviet-union-food/). [Ended famines.](https://artir.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/the-soviet-series-from-farm-to-factory-stalins-industrial-revolution/)
- [USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA](https://web.archive.org/web/20200120213518/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). [Calories consumed surpassed the US](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640). [source](https://artir.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-soviet-union-food/). [Ended famines.](https://artir.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/the-soviet-series-from-farm-to-factory-stalins-industrial-revolution/)
- Productive forces were not organized for capital gain and private enrichment; public ownership of the means of production supplanted private ownership. It was illegal to hire others and accumulate personal wealth from their labor.
- Had the [2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan.](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png) The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular.
- [Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world.]( https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm ) [42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482)