No

it is why eastern europe is in tatters

and why the ussr failed

Look at Stalin's 5 year plan

it did what the west had already achieved

@sunman USSR failed Because of reforms

Are you delusional

Gorbachev's reforms ended the USSR

Not it's economics

reform allowed for sentiment which had been boiling for decades to voice

That's wrong again

the soviet economy in the late 80s was failing

The USSR was entering decline in the 1970s, gorbachev just made it worse

My parents and back all lived in the USSR @sunman

I can vouch against it

Lol

Poorfags

They were well off

so they were kulaks

>were

my family lived in ukraine

and emigrated post war

Kulaks deserved it tbh

they lost their land to collectivisation

and had to work on communal farming

@sunman Almost everything in history books regarding the USSR is propaganda

one of them was even arrested and sent to a gulag for attending political meetings

Good lmao

i can respect russia in some regards

but its communist past did not help them

Authoritarianism must be enforced

as much as the red nationalism makes it look desirable

@sunman The US's economy during and even post-war was pretty command economy

the difference is they always had a degree of free market competition

the USSR had none at all

therefore it failed to grow as competitively

That wasn't the deciding factor

the right model of the bolsheviks was more favourable

Keynesianism doesnt work

the NEP could have allowed the USSR what it needed

That's already been proved