The ambiguous wording doesn’t erase the fact that this is your rejection of the assertion you later accepted.
Huh? There is no ambiguity.
I am saying (emphasis mine): “”I don’t see any retreat from the collectivization in the mid-30s”. Note: “in”. What you are implying I said is that I don’t see any retreat from the collectivization after the mid-30s. These are different sentences with different meaning.
as being in competition
It’s not a competition, but if you want to claim some authority (“I do have some idea what I’m talking about”), it would help to not bounce between claims that are wrong (“The mid 1930′s had the first semi-capitalistic change”) and claims that are not even wrong (“the USSR would briefly swap over to a semi-capitalist system for a few years”).
Huh? There is no ambiguity.
I am saying (emphasis mine): “”I don’t see any retreat from the collectivization in the mid-30s”. Note: “in”. What you are implying I said is that I don’t see any retreat from the collectivization after the mid-30s. These are different sentences with different meaning.
It’s not a competition, but if you want to claim some authority (“I do have some idea what I’m talking about”), it would help to not bounce between claims that are wrong (“The mid 1930′s had the first semi-capitalistic change”) and claims that are not even wrong (“the USSR would briefly swap over to a semi-capitalist system for a few years”).