> Russia transformed from a backwoods feudal mudpit 1. Wouldn't high growth be easy starting from near zero? Almost always growth slows down when you become fu

> Russia transformed from a backwoods feudal mudpit 1. Wouldn't high growth be easy starting from near zero? Almost always growth slows down when you become fully developed. 2. What is Russia's growth now? 3. You leave out one of the reasons for the collapse of USSR: the failing economy. > But the opposite -- giving complete lead to the anarchy of production -- has proven to be disastrous for average working people. Average working people are much better in the US than in USSR or Russia almost by any objective measure. You leave out North Korea, Venezuela etc. All centrally planned.