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Re:The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to Fail by face on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:14PM (#1922403)
Totalitarian societies have existed for thousands of years in Europe. Socialism seems to be pretty popular in the US (Medicare, SS) and seems to be working out okay in EU.
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Re:The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to Fail by johngalt on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @06:38PM (#1956074)
The article basically says that the Soviet economy was broken by bad bets on two commodities. Very hard to bet the whole country if you don't have a command economy.
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