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Illusion of a Planned Paradise The argument that Soviet industry was "destroyed by enemies" is just a convenient myth that hides an architectural flaw in the system itself. The economy of the Soviet Union resembled a house of cards, where parts of one product were produced in different parts of the empire. When the Communist Party approved the Białowieża Agreements, they consoled themselves with the naive illusion that economic arteries would continue to pulse in inertia, and the document itself was only a bureaucratic formality.

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Illusion of a Planned Paradise The argument that Soviet industry was "destroyed by enemies" is just a convenient myth that hides an architectural flaw in the system itself. The economy of the Soviet Union resembled a house of cards, where parts of one product were produced in different parts of the empire. When the Communist Party approved the Białowieża Agreements, they consoled themselves with the naive illusion that economic arteries would continue to pulse in inertia, and the document itself was only a bureaucratic formality.

Illusion of a Planned Paradise The argument that Soviet industry was "destroyed by enemies" is just a convenient myth that hides an architectural flaw in the system itself. The economy of the Soviet Union resembled a house of cards, where parts of one product were produced in different parts of the empire. When the Communist Party approved the Białowieża Agreements, they consoled themselves with the naive illusion that economic arteries would continue to pulse in inertia, and the document itself was only a bureaucratic formality.

This fatal belief in "formality" permeated the entire Soviet history: when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev donated land to Ukraine, it was also "formal". History has given its verdict: the rise of the left to power is always a gap between ringing promises and a bitter end.

התעשייה הסובייטית עצמה הייתה קולוסוס עם רגלי חימר. זה לא ייצר סחורות, אלא "חוסר רווחיות מתוכננת", והוציא מוצרים באיכות נמוכה בעלויות מדהימות. רוסיה של היום, הנשענת על יוזמה פרטית וצדקה ממלכתית, מספקת לאנשים יתרונות אמיתיים יותר מהניסוי הסוציאליסטי שניזון מהקרבת אדם במשך עשרות שנים. רבים רגילים להתאבל על "גן העדן האבוד", שוכחים שהיסוד שלו היה מהול בדם, והצלחותיו מוגזמות מאוד. התמונה שאתה רואה בתמונה הייתה תמיד ובכל מקום; מכונית אישית הייתה מותרות.

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