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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 27 July 2012 05:44:13PM *  3 points [-]

Have you lived in Russia until the 1970s? If not, you should ask people who have!

I agree that the OP, and grandparent are terrible posts.

Comment author: shminux 28 July 2012 06:36:20PM 0 points [-]

Have you lived in Russia until the 1970s? If not, you should ask people who have!

I never said that they were very happy people (though I suspect that on average people were reasonably happy), only that the centralized economy worked, judging by the GDP growth [citation needed]

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 29 July 2012 12:51:07AM *  2 points [-]

Your original sentence: "There are plenty of examples where socialism and even centralized economy works better than free market, at least for a time (Russia until 1970s, modern China, Germany, etc.)".

What free market economy are you comparing with USSR? See also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation for a starting point. My parents (who were young people under Brezhnev) would be extremely amused by a favorable comparison of Brezhnev's USSR with any large free market economy.

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