That's what rhetorical questions are for. This one isn't one of those. I'm genuinely asking about a real life situation where this was tried, and asking about t

That's what rhetorical questions are for. This one isn't one of those. I'm genuinely asking about a real life situation where this was tried, and asking about the costs. I genuinely don't know, I never lived in those countries, and my education was in a very anticommunist country, so that doesn't help me much.