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My favourite point when dealing with USSR sympathiers is that Chinese success is owed to 40 years of NEP, which was shut down in the USSR and doomed it. (And t
by thriftwy 5y ago
My favourite point when dealing with USSR sympathiers is that Chinese success is owed to 40 years of NEP, which was shut down in the USSR and doomed it.
(And this is due to Soviet distrust of its own Russian population, and also due to habit of siphoning money out of consumer economy)
Edit: The thing is, USSR was doomed after winning WW2.
It had to compete with the rest of the world economically without having adequate economy. USA just had to choose the relevant weapon (consumer economy) to win this one.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt's not so clear that the shut-down of the NEP doomed the USSR. The argument that without Stalin's focus on heavy industry the USSR would have lost WW2 is a good one. Naturally the NEP developed light industry much more strongly than Stalin has and neglected the heavy industry necessary to win WW2 relatively.