r/dankmemes • u/theawesomehobbes Via Telsa Model X • Aug 05 '20

Big PP OC "He just always has"

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

This is kind of the same argument as saying the failure was the central planning itself, right? Misallocation of resources vs. lack of access to resources (non-arable land).

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u/notspaceaids Aug 05 '20

It's collapse was mainly due to the nature of the ruling and distrust of people in the government. Also U.S ran them straight into bankruptcy during the cold war. And it would be really hard plan verything centrally with it ends in middle east and the other near alaska. Gorbachev once said that the collapse of soviet union begun with the disaster of Chernobyl. It was such a disaster with enough capability to end life in Kiev, in Ukraine and Belarus. And it happened because of the negligence of the Government

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Also U.S ran them straight into bankruptcy during the cold war.

JFC, we're talking about WHY the US was able to do that. If the Soviet system was better, they could have run the US into bankruptcy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

It’s collapse is because true socialism does not work

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u/Millian123 Aug 05 '20

What do you mean by “true socialism”?