Comments by "And Rei" (@AndRei-yc3ti) on "Why the Soviet Internet Failed" video.

The reasoning for OGAS in the first place waw to have GOSPLAN transition to mostly automated planning as a computer could handle the amount of inputs far better than a human and could optimize the necessary calculations much better IMO. Too bad it never got off the ground @AlexthunderGnum
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 @sebastiang7394 USSR was a horrible system? Many from the USSR would disagree.
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 @Gilhelmi who said that regulated communism wouldnt work
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@matchesburn "turns out this way"? Turn out what way? Even during Brezhnev's era zastoi, the Soviet economy was growing about 1.2%/year. The real shortage problems began in 1984 when Gorbachev came and only after he started dismantling the central planning apparatus
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@AlexKarasev idk about them working their tail off under capitalism. If youve ever worked in an office, most people are coasting and not concerning themselves with more than they are "paid to do". How often do you hear the term "they dont pay me.enough for this"? I would question how much Capitalism promotes self actualization for the middle 80% as they would be too tired from a long day of work to self actualize, and most people just do enough to not get fired.
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 @AlexKarasev the true reason for the collapse of the USSR was betrayal and lack of backbone of its elites. In my opinion of course.
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 @aw2031zap it wasnt Afghanistan that sank the ship. It was weak leadership that allowed the pro-West faction in the CPSU to win
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@ВасилийКоровин-г9э 1. The irony of your statement is that much of the US economy at the time was also planned and ran through a "military-civilian fusion " (in reality the military gave the money and dictated what and how things got built) this was for example a big reason for the development of Silicon Valley 2. Soviet things were poorly built? Is this why every post-Soviet State still heavily relies on Soviet legacy products/infrastructure/hardware 30 years after its fall? Indeed, even in Canada I have seen lab equipment and machines in factories made in the USSR that still work.
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 @Bialy_1 yes Soviets didnt have enough rivets and yet where somehow able to produce massive tank armies (with more than 10 thousand tanks), and send things into space lmao
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@user-bh6ey1ke4n its been 30 years with little maintenance what did you expect? How do you think capitalist/american legacy would work without maintenance. Probably less than 10 due to planned obsolescence The fact that it mostly works after all this time is shocking and speaks to the quality of soviet legacy
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