What does that mean? We can have freedom and technology at the same time. In fact capitalism encourages entrepreneurship and invention. And socialism does not end poverty.
Cuban poverty 2013, under socialist utopia:
Venezuela
North Korea
China
I looked up Russia, and your picture came up. LOL!
One thing you will learn traveling to certain places and working in a feeding line in the middle of a dump while standing next to "houses" made from cardboard, is that no one in this country is "poor."
Except our government. (but you would never know they were trillions in debt by the way they act)