Your Easter Bloc examples are a pretty good case against planned economies under oppressive dictatorial regimes, not against government grants to provide incentives for the market to move in certain directions.

> Then it's not a fair fight anymore

That's missing the point. Government interventions of the type in this thread are aimed at providing a fighting chance for the guy that doesn't have the money for a gym or a trainer, to see if his unorthodox ideas of how to fight will actually prove to be worth anything.

There might very well be arguments against these types of interventions, but it will have to be a different argument than against what we usually consider bailouts.

Bailouts for failed businesses employing well established existing technology is an entirely different beast.