5 points
Just because they have natural resources that can be commodified.
3 points
I would argue that the economic system wasn’t badly planned but perfectly planned (or evolved). It’s the epitome of an efficient funneling of wealth towards the top in a wormhole-shaped way. It just sucks proportionally downwards in the same way.
1 point
-12 points
tired campism
8 points
the soviet union hasn’t existed for like, 33 years. You need to wake up. In fact I think you need a mirror, because you are so knee-jerk reactionary with needing to engage in a nationalist either/or narrative here that you are making it up for other people out of wholecloth.
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