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The 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
by monochr 12y ago
The 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 :-( .