Please list the medical breakthroughs throughout history created by communist and totalitarian states.
Assuming that by “communist and totalitarian states” you mean the workers’ states, a few are:
1. First oral and first live-virus polio vaccine: Soviet Union
2. First country to eradicate polio: Czechoslovakia
3. First vaccine therapy to prevent and treat lung cancer: Cuba
4. Two other promising cancer treatments in development and one that is market-ready: Cuba
5: First safe drug treatment for diabetic foot ulcers: Cuba
6. First blood bank: Soviet Union
7. First kidney transplant: Soviet Union.
8. First lung transplant and first combined heart/lung transplant: Soviet Union
9. First head transplant with full cerebral function in animals: Soviet Union
10. First surgery for myopia: Soviet Union
11. Oxygen cocktail: Soviet Union
12. First LSD-assisted psychoanalysis: Czechoslovakia
13. First synthetic insulin: China
14. First non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome: China