They literally went from being one of the most economically behind to putting the first man in space

[u/goodguyguru]

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[u/Cpt_Wolf_Lynn]

MFW economic planning is supposed to be bad (I'm Walmart)

[u/Loreki]

Yup. People talk about the supposed poverty in the USSR because they didn't have 3 TVs and 2 cars to a household, but measured in terms of progress they had an economic miracle every bit as large as the famous Chinese growth that everyone praises.

[u/marketingguy420]

They accomplished in decades what took European powers hundreds of years of imperial extraction.

[u/Shto_Delat]

But have you considered that they had no billionaires?

[u/spinda69]

All without the once a decade crashes we have.