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A comment on Rhythm: Story of a Soviet startup (2015).

Re:Rhythm: Story of a Soviet startup (2015) by anthonybsd on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:20PM (#13369111)
As someone who lived in there, 1988 Soviet Union is Soviet in name only. Once co-ops started rolling it was basically over for planned economy.
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Re:Rhythm: Story of a Soviet startup (2015) by guard-of-terra on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:29PM (#13369221)
Unfortunately, most people on the whole territory are still not free from Soviet spell.

Even those who claim to be anti-Soviet express all the same thinking patterns.

WRT the article: The real start-upers bartered western PCs (faxes, etc) for raw materials, quickly got a good capital and were able to start serious enterprises. You could get a train car of aluminium for a fax machine, since having one was A Thing for late soviet bureaucrats and they had aluminium to spare.

I think Volozh did something like that before he decided to start Yandex.

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