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If you make the argument the USSR removed that overhead, it might be good to keep in mind, the tsars and the kosacks where busy removing it long before.
by jacobush 9y ago
If you make the argument the USSR removed that overhead, it might be good to keep in mind, the tsars and the kosacks where busy removing it long before.
- loblollyboy 9y agoHow?
- jacobush 9y agoTsar Russia was a very centralised society. A large portion of the population were not allowed to make any decisions for themselves, because they were slaves. Another large portion were peasants, but they reported to a master. And the Tsar himself was bogged down in decision making about minutiae to the degree that he had little time for strategic thinking.