I know people who have opened stores in the US, and all of them have needed permits and various bits of government approval, sometimes zoning board hearings and

I know people who have opened stores in the US, and all of them have needed permits and various bits of government approval, sometimes zoning board hearings and whatnot. The larger the enterprise, the more approval needed, just like the USSR. You seem to lack knowledge of how tbe economy in the USSR functioned. You keep using this word market. A market in the US was the same as a USSR market. Yes, other things varied, but markets were the same. Also you are attributing and inferring some statements to me that I did not say.