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Re:Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl by Chris2048 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:19AM (#27064544)
> this idea that they were dumb and we're smart

The cold war suggests Russia is anything but dumb. And as those bullets demonstrate, they where smart enough to know better - but the problem with the Soviet Union was not that it collapsed (or was unstable), but that it wasn't transparent - it cared more about the image of functionality than actual functionality.

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Re:Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl by orwin on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:28PM (#27065668)
Ahah, exact!

To have credit, you have to look good. To look good, you have to hide the bad under the mantle and show how much you can do with so little! In a way, soviet russia was more productivist than any company ever was and will ever be.

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