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> this idea that they were dumb and we're smart The cold war suggests Russia is anything but dumb. And as those bullets demonstrate, they where smart enough to
by Chris2048 6y ago
> this idea that they were dumb and we're smart
The cold war suggests Russia is anything but dumb. And as those bullets demonstrate, they where smart enough to know better - but the problem with the Soviet Union was not that it collapsed (or was unstable), but that it wasn't transparent - it cared more about the image of functionality than actual functionality.
- orwin 6y agoAhah, exact! To have credit, you have to look good. To look good, you have to hide the bad under the mantle and show how much you can do with so little! In a way, soviet russia was more productivist than any company ever was and will ever be.