GOSPLAN had decades, and access to unlimited men with guns and dogs, to make its plans work. And it failed. For a while (until the early 80s) things did work r

GOSPLAN had decades, and access to unlimited men with guns and dogs, to make its plans work. And it failed. For a while (until the early 80s) things did work reasonably well in the Soviet Union, compared to its overall condition at the end of WW II.