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Stalin designing the first 5 year plan doesnt sound impressive. It sounds like an idiotic idea resulting from an idiot, with predictably idiotic centrally plann
by aswanson 12y ago
Stalin designing the first 5 year plan doesnt sound impressive. It sounds like an idiotic idea resulting from an idiot, with predictably idiotic centrally planned results.
- monochr 12y agoThe first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that it happened in the middle of the great depression without outside help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan_%28Soviet_Union%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan_%28Soviet...
- delian66 12y agoIt also created the conditions for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor in which millions of people starved to death :-( .