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This ignores the Soviet Union and all of it's allies, which did trade amongst themselves but failed regardless.

• marnett 8y ago
  I had mostly cuba in mind with this comment
  • ericd 8y ago
    From what I understand, life in the Soviet Union itself wasn't exactly luxurious, even if you weren't one of the unlucky people to be put in a Siberian labor camp.