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.
Soviet industry itself was a colossus with feet of clay. It produced no goods, but "planned unprofitability," and churned out low-quality products at staggering costs. Today's Russia, which relies on private initiative and state charity, provides people with more real benefits than the socialist experiment fueled by human sacrifice for decades. Many are used to mourning the "lost paradise", forgetting that its foundation was mixed with blood, and its successes are greatly exaggerated. The picture you see in the picture was always and everywhere; A personal car was a luxury.