Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Soviet Economy, Explained" video.

  1. YIKES!
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  2.  @MASJYT  Also many of the USSR's vassal states fell once the USSR stopped supporting them. East Germany, North Korea and Cuba among others.
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  3. And mismanaged them to ruin as always.
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  4. Yet no real economy to sustain all that. Never mind the political repression which makes the "free" stuff trivial. Even slaves in the Antebellum US South had free education, healthcare, housing, food, jobs, etc.
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  5. Due to the government thinking they know better than the market.
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  6.  @sisyphusvasilias3943  But the Soviet Union wasn't able to sustain it declining just as rapidly as it grew.
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  7.  @rafaellisboa8493  According to tankies.
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  8. Yet depends on other countries for food, currency, etc.
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  9. <3rd world countries > Most 3rd world countries were actually communist but refused to be Soviet puppets.
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  10. Pretty much.
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  11.  @wongkeehan  Especially when the money ran out.
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  12. LOL. It is because of communism due to its promotion and practice of inefficient and ineffective farming methods and the government hoarding of the final product.
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  13.  @MAM-pd9mx  Communism doesn't work even in isolated systems like the Pilgrims and Jonestown.
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