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The writing isn't exactly novel-quality. 

They aren't being flippant. There's literally no option to pay anybody for this book on Itch.io. You have to go to Amazon to do that, and jahtnamas probably missed that link. God knows I missed it the first (and second!) time that I looked. 

The authors are probably paid if you buy from Amazon, because they are listed on the Amazon entry and tRaum Books is not. 

The facial expressions at the end indicate "this is bad." If that was not your intent, then I think that you need to revise the game, because it's pretty clear from the comments that people think that there are bad endings and that every ending is (supposed to be understood as) a bad ending. 

The fact that the game considers that to be a bad ending is what makes me give it 1/5 stars. 

You have a good decade with the love of your life and then — at the cost of your life, admittedly — you help usher in real change that really benefits people? That's great! 

But the game thinks that it's a bad end for some reason. Sure, you die prematurely, but everybody dies.  

What I'm pointing out is that, for most of its history, redistribution did not lead to starvation in the Soviet Union (and that's without even getting into how much of the starvation in the Soviet Union was a result of communism vs. authoritarianism and genocidal crackdowns) and that, in fact, the *end* of redistribution and the arrival of capitalist policies was disastrous for the Russian people. 

Actually, after 1947 there ceased to be widespread starvation in Russia up until the Soviet Union collapsed and GLORIOUS CAPITALISM arrived.  By 1996, the front runner in the presidential elections was the leader of the Communist Party, and Yeltsin managed to claw his way from last place primarily through a combination of domestic fraud and foreign interference.