Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism?
AskewLord@piefed.social 4 hours agoUSSR’s success was largely fueled my mass murder, political oppression, and lying about economic growth.
they were ‘good’ at centralizing power to achieve certain goals, like military and the space race, but their economy outside of such priority areas, was in shambles. their agricultural and industrial capacity was terrible.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Agriculture yes, industrial capacity no.
AskewLord@piefed.social 3 hours ago
dude it took years for anyone to get a car. shortages of basic things like office supplies were common outside of the government, etc
it was shit outside of military production, because basically it all went to military production.