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I’m pretty sure Stalin and his secret police didn’t give them a choice.
When they captured a B-29 Superfortress they set up a special program to duplicate it right down to patch covering a hole in the fuselage. With special telephone lines leading directly to Stalin and all the design shops. Anyone who fucked went to the gulag.
Depending on what you count as industrialization you can put basically every country that ever industrialized ever in a 40 to 50 year time frame. Obviously early adopter like the UK took a bit longer while later adopters like the UDSSR, China or Japan for example could learn from the others and be faster. How does this have to do anything with communism?
It just proves communism is not a failed economic system because it provably delivers the same economic outcomes.
I guess so.
And another 30 years was strictly declining before the end. Economically best version was when Stalin was rule. He has positive GDP even at end of WW2 without oil trading, built many DBs and train many scientists that allows to flight in space (when Stalin was die but we know who make it possible and whos made that inertion). After it in next 30 years one big thing that ussr was made is crude oil trading that allow to fuck off other economy aspects because leaders and elites have enough money from it by some time. And after some crisises (own wars that(surprise!) costs some money, middle east wars that put oil prices down) ussr finally made economical suicide by printing money as much as they needed for support they military. Some years and that union was gone.
Lenin was austrian-bribed version of currently died Navalny(paid from EU) but way more bloody and he was gloried that country (Russian Empire) is losing in WW1. He put country in the ruins and after it was stealing by military force most of food from people to feed up his military to stabilize his throne because country was poor to make it available by another ways after inner war that is Lenin was started(want to put the meme - what makes it? What makes it?). If Stalin was the same dumb like Lenin, nazis can easily invade this weak union.
And thats all about economics and the dumbs(and elites that want more and more money) in economics in the first place.
almost single handedly
Oh shit here we go again
If you add almost it's almost always technically true.
They say shit like that then be like "we have to beat Russia to the moon"
"be beat Russia at some arbitrary target at set up because they beat us up at every other step"
Member how the first Z nazis kept stealing toilets and washers?
Not that space-age.
You mean that thing that never happened?
Goddam you really brought out the .world fascists with this one.
Its easy to trigger fascists
I believe whatade this possible was the centralized state which allowed for quick organization of projects and the belief held in communism that everyone is equal. I am however unsure if communism in the UDSSR worked overall. I am admitedly uninformed, but if it was anything like the GDR, I'd say no. (Planned economy, scarcity of goods, strict surveillance)
If you take a look at USSR economic growth over time you'll see that it is very linear with very few accidents. Over the same time period, US economy goes a bit faster by contorting itself into fits and spurts and crisis after crisis.
Some would say that makes the communist economy better, as it's somewhat slower but more reliable and predictable. But capitalists hate it because in a rational economy they can't bet on booms and busts.
So, yeah, it definitely did work and if there hadn't been an arms race and a cold war the Soviet union probably wouldn't have collapsed.
The problem is their "to each according to their need" philosophy wasn't able to figure out what to do when they're producing more than they need. So they just produced more shitty tanks.
Also a lot of people starved in that 50 year period. Also also, a capitalist system was able to go to the Moon.
It's kind of an odd reading of history to pretend like the enlightenment and ensuing industrial revolution didn't lift most of the "developed" world out of poverty. Sure, some countries got there through something adjacent to socialism, and some countries got there through capitalism. But the common thread seems like it has more to do with ending feudalism and advanced manufacturing than pure economic theory.