> The Soviet economy was perfectly functional until the very end. You have never spent much time in the former Soviet Union have you? The Soviet Union could

> The Soviet economy was perfectly functional until the very end. You have never spent much time in the former Soviet Union have you? The Soviet Union could only survive because of its reliance on natural resources. They could not export exept to people they keeped under millitary controll and all of those tried to get western stuff if they could. The Soviets themself always imported lots of tech from the west, with the exeption of select industries like space they were behind. Read: - Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1917–1930 (1968) - Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1930–1945 (1971) - Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1945–1965 (1973) Internally the Soviet economy never functioned as claimed. The only reason it could survive at all is because illegal market makers would travel around and exchange resources between different factories.