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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by Jabbles on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:05AM (#34410527)
Between 1922 and 1962, USSR's economy grew at an average of about 9% real per annum

Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier.

https://bearkunin.medium.com/soviet-union-facts-and-fictions...

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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by D_Alex on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:22AM (#34410605)
>Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier.

True. But you know what really makes economic growth easier? Foreign aid. Also trade.

The USSR otoh had to deal with sanctions.

https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Embargoes-and-S...

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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by slothtrop on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:10AM (#34413302)
Yet they weren't alone in the world. They were next to China and other friendlies.
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Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union by D_Alex on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#34414074)
China was friendly with the USSR only briefly, like in the 1950s. It was desperately poor at the time, and received a lot of aid from the USSR.

I don't know what other friendlies you mean. USSR installed communist/socialist governments in the countries it liberated from German occupation after WW2, but those relationships were... complicated.

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